Michelle Bachelet Quotes - Page 3

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• Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Opportunity, Creating

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• The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

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  Principles, Agents, Proactive

  "A Conversation With Michelle Bachelet". www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

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• We need to have a broad debate so that the new Chilean constitution is representative of everyone. I am convinced that it cannot just be developed by an expert group. First, people at all levels will be given an opportunity to provide input. They should be allowed to express their opinions about the kind of society they would like to live in. That's the kind of open process I would like to see. The issue at hand here is finding unity on the greater rules. Afterwards, a text will be developed and presented to parliament.

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  Opportunity, People, Opinion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favourably.

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  Party, Thinking, People

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world". Interview with Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2006.

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• I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17 million, cannot depend entirely on its domestic market. Which is why the decision to focus on exports, made at the beginning of the democratic era, was the correct one. We are continuing to do so. For a long time, Chile has been successful in combating poverty. But now we must focus more on fighting inequality.

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  Fighting, Successful, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the eyes of many business leaders, there is never an opportune moment for tax reform. Yes, the economy is losing momentum, but that is not because a handful of people are losing their privileges. Slow growth did not first begin during my term in office; the market downturn is making itself felt around the world. My government has responded with an agenda aimed at raising productivity. We are also investing substantially in infrastructure - the plan calls for €20.5 billion or $26.3 billion by 2021.

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  Eye, Office, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

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  Government, Issues, Essentials

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• U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Thinking, Political Will, Creating

  UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

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  Military, Enough, Combat

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

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  Jobs, Pride, Years

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• I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

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  Kind, Stereotype

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• Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

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  Past, Election, Break

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• As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

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  Opportunity, India, Asia

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• We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes were made after the return of democracy, but its origins remain illegitimate. Instead of continuing to make fixes here and there, we need to undertake fundamental changes to our constitution to make it reflect the reality of our democratic society.

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  Reality, Democracy, Constitution

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

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  Dream, Home, Reality

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• As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.

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  Jobs, Husband, Hands

  "All I want in life is to walk along the beach, holding my lover's hand". Interview with Jonathan Franklin, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2005.

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• Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

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  Memories, Tragedy, Important

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world". Interview with Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2006.

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• Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

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  Country, Hands, Economic Models

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• As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

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  Rights, Egypt, Decision

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