Ricardo Lagos Quotes (24 Quotes)

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

Today, a leader with extraordinary legitimacy takes office and we hope to have the best of relations. We have excluded nothing from our talks.

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.

It will be a difficult task, but your capabilities will enable us to have a great government and a great woman.

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.

Chile is calm, because its institutions are doing what they have to do.

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.

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,

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

This is not the Chile we want to build.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

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.

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

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.

What we have today is a different kind of enemy - it's not a country, it's not a particular society, it's not a religion. It has an unknown face.

I hope this does not mean a greater difficulty added to our differences of opinion over the frontiers in the Pacific Ocean,

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.

Chile deserved and deserves a democratic Constitution, in accordance with today's international standards of democracy. That is what the Congress approved a few days ago, and that is what we have signed today.

This initiative is part of our plans to put Chile at the vanguard of technological development. According to our projections, Chile will need more than 200,000 Internet technicians by 2002. Cisco Systems will no doubt allow us to speed up that process,

it shares the pain that those acts provoked.

Pinochet knew the (legal) issues existed and for me it would not be appropriate, that as a result of his difficulties, the country becomes involved and is affected internationally,