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

People can progress only by working and producing more.

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

Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.

I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.