People can progress only by working and producing more.

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.

This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

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

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

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.

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