I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

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

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.