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.

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

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.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

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.

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.