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

"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."

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

"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."

"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."

"This is not the Chile we want to build."

"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."