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Augusto Pinochet

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• “The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Comptroller. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Press conference (11 September 1973) Youtube.com

• “The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (September 1974), quoted in La Nación (2006-12-11) "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet" (The Immortal Sayings of Pinochet)

• “I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (17 June 1975), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (11 September 1979), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1531 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (October 1981), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." This expression is not original to Pinochet; it is also attributed to Inca Atahualpa in 1531. See Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies.

• “I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (29 June 1982), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “This is not a dictadura [dictatorship/hard rule] but a dictablanda [soft rule].”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (September 1983), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." The Spanish word dura means tough, while blanda means soft.

• “I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (24 April 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “My library is filled with UN condemnations.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (26 December 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (24 April 1987), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (July 1987), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (February 23, 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (26 May 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (25 October 1988), commenting on his defeat in a plebiscite to return to democracy. Quoted in Pamela Constable et al. (1991) A Nation of Enemies

• “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.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (17 April 1989), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet" (2006-12-11) La Nación

• “He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Interview (1989) quoted in ""Ego sum Pinochet" 1989, Interview with Augusto Pinochet, authors Raquel Correa and Elizabeth Subercaseaux.

• “How very economical! (¡Pero que economía más grande!)”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remark to reporters (September 1991) when asked about the burial of 125 political opponents in 108 graves. Quoted in Chile Under Pinochet (2000) by Mark Ensalaco

• “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.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Comments at Mass (11 September 1994), quoted in Calvin Sims (1994-10-06) "Villain or Hero? Pinochet Is Still Viewed as Both in Chile" New York Times

• “The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (21 September 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (10 November 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (December 31, 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet.

• “Tell my friends to get me out of here.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: October 27, 1998, nine days after being arrested in London, quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow

• “The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Statement (8 November 1998)

• “I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973.… These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Statement (8 November 1998)

• “I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: November 1998, during detention in London

• “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.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Exchange between Judge Victor Montiglio and Pinochet (November 16, 2005), quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow

• “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.”

  Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Birthday announcement (25 November 2006); "Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship" (26 November 2006) Washington Post