Carlos Menem Quotes

Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999

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Carlos Saúl Menem (Anillaco, La Rioja, July 2nd 1930) is an Argentine politician and lawyer. He held the position of President of the Nation between 1989 and 1999. As President, he identified as a right-wing "Federal Peronist" who supported the Washington Consensus. He implemented neoliberal economic policies which privatized many state-run industries and pegged the Argentine peso to the U.S. dollar. He also pursued closer diplomatic relations with the United States, normalized diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom for the first time since the Falklands War, and made significant amendments to the Argentine Constitution in 1994 under a deal with Raúl Alfonsín's left-wing opposition. Although Menem's economic policies were initially successful, his administration's tax cuts, heavy government borrowing, and inability to maintain the peso's fixed exchange rate with the dollar eventually resulted in a severe deficit and the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression. Menem tried to run for President again in the 2003 Argentine general election but dropped out to avoid a run-off defeat to Néstor Kirchner, and was later investigated for corruption.

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Native Name: Carlos Saúl Menem

Alternative Names: Carlos Saul Menem

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English: "To all of them I say that I take you in my heart, I won't put my arms down, and you can have complete assurance I won't abandon political fight, why has been and is the reason for my life".

English: "We're going to a second round and we will win on the second round"

A triunfar, a triunfar, a triunfar

La segunda vuelta será un paso formal, nada más.

Mi libro de cabecera son las obras completas de Sócrates

(when asked whether he planned to resign from the ballotage) "Tan sólo un borracho puede hacer tales afirmaciones"

English: "People who forget their history, repeat that history. As we forgot the happenings on 1955, we were repeating that same history soonly afterwards, tackling the government of Dr. Alfonsín... uh, Frondizi. They're both radicals."

En estos momentos de turbulencia, les voy a dar dos consejos. Como lo hacía Julio César, ese emperador romano. Con el miedo de los tripulantes, los juntaba y les decía 'no temáis, vais con César y su estrella'. Y yo les digo a todos los argentinos: 'no teman, ¡van con Carlos Menem y su estrella!'

English: "...a space flight system will be leased, through which a platform that perhaps will be installed in the province of Córdoba. Those spaceships, with all current and future security measures, are going to leave the atmosphere, take off to the stratosphere, and from there choose the place where they want to go. In such a way that, in one hour and a half we can be from Argentina in Japan, Korea or any other part of the world. And of course, flights to other planets, the day we detect that on other planets there's also life"

English: "A [<nowiki/>railroad] branch that goes on strike is a branch that closes down."

… la transformación del sistema educativo que ya está en marcha. Se eliminarán totalmente las escuelas prima— precarias.

A todos ellos les digo que los llevo en mi corazón, que no bajaré los brazos y que pueden tener la absoluta seguridad que no abandonaré la lucha política, que ha sido y es la razón de mi vida.

Vamos a segunda vuelta y vamos a ganar en segunda vuelta

Mi intuición me está diciendo que antes del año 2000, las Malvinas volverán a poder de la República Argentina.

Los pueblos que olvidan su historia, repiten la historia. Como nos olvidamos de los acontecimientos de 1955, estuvimos repitiendo esa misma historia al poco tiempo, tumbando al gobierno del Dr. Alfonsín... eh, Frondizi. Son radicales los dos.