I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.