Ricardo Lagos Quotes

Ricardo Lagos — Chilean Politician born on March 02, 1938,

Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have ruled Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on March 11, 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. Since May 2007 he has served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon... (wikipedia)

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

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

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

This is not the Chile we want to build.

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