Ricardo Lagos Quotes


"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Children, Living)

"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."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Religion, Country, Culture, Enemy, Support)

"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Democracy)

"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
(Related: Understanding, World)

"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Government, Country, Problems, Reason, Separation)

"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
(Related: Country, Job, Obligation, President, Pressure, Promise, Will)

"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Justice)

"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: 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."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Country, Fact, Police)

"This is not the Chile we want to build."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Want)