Ricardo Lagos Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Country, Job

  Tags in Free

• 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

  Topics in Country, Enemy

  Tags in Against

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

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, Between

• Let’s not interfere with justice… Let’s let justice speak.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Speak, Interface

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

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Healing, Wound

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Better, Person

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

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Able, Poverty, Cross

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

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Living, Dead

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Must, Need, Deal

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

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Understand

• This is not the Chile we want to build.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Build

Ricardo Lagos (11)

Birth:	2nd March, 1938
Nationality:	Chilean
Profession:	Economist, Lawyer

About

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.

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