Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak. (Ricardo Lagos)
Today, a leader with extraordinary legitimacy takes office and we hope to have the best of relations. We have excluded nothing from our talks. (Ricardo Lagos)
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. (Ricardo Lagos)
It will be a difficult task, but your capabilities will enable us to have a great government and a great woman. (Ricardo Lagos)
When Lula came into office, there was a lot of fear about how the government would manage the economy and a lot of confidence about how ethical the government would be, ... It is ironic that we are seeing just the opposite. (Ricardo Lagos)
Chile is calm, because its institutions are doing what they have to do. (Ricardo Lagos)
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. (Ricardo Lagos)
I hope this situation with ex-President Fujimori in Chile is not an obstacle in our relations with Peru and I hope it does not mean any greater difficulty involving our differing points of view about our borders in the Pacific Ocean, (Ricardo Lagos)
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. (Ricardo Lagos)
This is not the Chile we want to build. (Ricardo Lagos)
Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross. (Ricardo Lagos)
Something happened here that rarely happened in other meetings the call to speak out loud was taken up by everyone, ... At times, we all talked out loud, perhaps too loud, but it made the meeting that much more interesting. (Ricardo Lagos)
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty. (Ricardo Lagos)
I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive. (Ricardo Lagos)
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers. (Ricardo Lagos)