Jose Mujica

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.

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

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.

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.

No addiction is good.

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

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