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" All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. "
Way
Tide
Life
" A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. "
Politics
Like
Go
" Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force. "
Any
Economic
Important
" Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet. "
Enough
Rich
Resources
" Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament. "
Just
Constitution
Government
" I am an austere president. "
Austere
President
Am
" I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it. "
Whether
Accept
Know
" I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff. "
Want
Energy
Live
" If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president. "
Worried
About
President
" If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it. "
Guantanamo
Make
Want
" If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species. "
World
Moving
Think
" If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself. "
Life
Need
Work
" I give myself the luxury of saying what I want. "
Want
Myself
Luxury
" I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me. "
Kids
Live
Together
" I know prisons from the inside. "
Prisons
Know
Inside
" I learned that one can always start again. "
Again
Always
Learned
" I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented! "
Words
Good
I Am
" I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. "
President
Poorest
Poor
" I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. "
Age
Way
Live
" I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land. "
Promised Land
Apocalypse
Land
" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "
History
Wounds
Lifestyle
" My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values. "
Way
Values
Like
" No addiction is good. "
Addiction
Good
" Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. "
Want
Try
Poor
" Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina. "
Argentina
Never
Talked
" The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide. "
Against
Fight
Lost
" The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest. "
Richest
People
Poorest
" The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have. "
Strive
Today
Us
" The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate. "
Political
Campaign
Best
" There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure. "
Say
Failure
Experiment
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