A biography for Jose Mujicahasn’t been written yet.
“The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.”
“The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.”
“I learned that one can always start again.”
“All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.”
“I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.”
“Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.”
“I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.”
“I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.”
“The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.”
“If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.”
“My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.”
“The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.”
“If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.”
“A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.”
“We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.”