I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn’t leave an inheritance, just debts.

I’m a person with a lot of affection for adventure – I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it’s not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Chile isn’t the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don’t have a single minute to lose.

Countries with deficit don’t want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don’t want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

Life is tough – and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.