Quotes by Ricardo Lagos

“What we have today is a different kind of enemy - its not a country, its not a particular society, its not a religion. It has an unknown face.”

“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.”

“The Chilean people have a profound feeling of solidarity towards the American people.”

“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.”

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

“This is a day of joy and national unity,”

“This is not the Chile we want to build,”

“Its important to see how we can advance in healing wounds,”

“They support terrorists, agents behind murders and insecurity directly or indirectly.”

“Chile deserved and deserves a democratic Constitution, in accordance with todays international standards of democracy. That is what the Congress approved a few days ago, and that is what we have signed today.”