My library is filled with UN condemnations. - Augusto Pinochet

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.

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

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