Statesman

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!

No addiction is good.

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

I learned that one can always start again.

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.