I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.