Quotes from Jose Mujica


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The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.


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.


The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.


I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.


The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.


Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.


I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.


If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.


Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.


I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.


If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.


We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.


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.


I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.


I know prisons from the inside.


The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.


The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.


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.


When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.


A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.