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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."

"Clothes are a homeless man's home."

"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."

"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."

"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."

"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."

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

"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."

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