Augusto Pinochet (1915 – 2006)
General and de facto head of state of Chile.
Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!
Tell my friends to get me out of here.
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
My library is filled with UN condemnations.
We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.
How very economical! (?Pero que economía más grande!)
To whom are we going to ask to be forgiven? To the one who tried to kill us? To the one who tried to destroy our country? To whom? They are the ones who must ask to be forgiven for everything they did before September 11.
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.… I assume full political responsibility for what happened.
The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.
I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.
Is it true what Contreras testified before the courts, that the president of the junta and later the president of the Republic was the direct head of DINA?
I don't remember, but it is not true. It is not true and if it was, I don't remember. Contreras liked to cajole, wrap around his boss. Contreras gave the orders. It was he who managed the institution.
Power must be vested in the armed forces, since only they have the organization and the means to fight Marxism.