Ricardo Lagos Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Let's not interfere with justice ... Let's let justice speak. — Ricardo Lagos

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

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