Ricardo Lagos Quotations

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

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.

This is a day of joy and national unity,

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,

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

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

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

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.

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.