Quotes by Ricardo Lagos

• Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
• We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
• We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
• We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.
• There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
• My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
• Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.
• It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
• Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.
• This is not the Chile we want to build.