Jose Mujica Quotes

There are people who say that you can't experiment ... That condemns you to failure. — Jose Mujica

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina. — Jose Mujica

I know prisons from the inside. — Jose Mujica

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again. — Jose Mujica

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide. — Jose Mujica

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land. — Jose Mujica

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin. — Jose Mujica

I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it. — Jose Mujica

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes. — Jose Mujica

What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal. — Jose Mujica

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest. — Jose Mujica

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough. — Jose Mujica

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president. — Jose Mujica

If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me, — Jose Mujica

I am an austere president. — Jose Mujica

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want. — Jose Mujica

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force. — Jose Mujica

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science. — Jose Mujica

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. — Jose Mujica

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. — Jose Mujica

I learned that one can always start again. — Jose Mujica

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values. — Jose Mujica

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. — Jose Mujica

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied. — Jose Mujica

I never killed anyone because it wasn't necessary. I could have killed. — Jose Mujica

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. — Jose Mujica

If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it. — Jose Mujica

No addiction is good. — Jose Mujica

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. — Jose Mujica

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion. — Jose Mujica

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live, — Jose Mujica

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate. — Jose Mujica

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures. — Jose Mujica

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses. — Jose Mujica

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me. — Jose Mujica

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. — Jose Mujica