Ricardo Lagos Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. This is not the Chile we want to build.

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

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

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

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

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

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