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.

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.

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

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?"

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

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

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.