People can progress only by working and producing more.

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

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?"

I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.

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

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.