Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make it happen. The same happens with education. So we have to ask ourselves, "Why can't we do anything?"