Uruguayan - Statesman | May 20, 1935 -
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
Jose Mujica
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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!
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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.
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The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
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I learned that one can always start again.
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I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
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My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
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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.
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I am an austere president.
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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.
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Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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