To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

My God can do it! My God will do it! My God wants to do it! My God has done it!

Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in the world or is he the blackest white person in the world?"

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

Only your friends steal your books.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'