Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

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

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

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.

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