I Believe That If You Want To

You All Want To Know What Is My Dream? Very Simple. To Walk Along The Beach, Holding The Hand Of My Lover.

The Current Global Landscape Is Quite Different From The Not-too-distant Past. The Process Of Globalization Has Intensified, And The World Is Moving Towards New Forms Of Governance.

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.

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.

As A Doctor, When I Was Minister Of Health And Would Go Somewhere, Little Girls Would Come Up To Me And Say, 'i Want To Be Like You One Day, I Want To Be A Doctor.' Now, They Tell Me, 'i Want To Be President Just Like You.' All Of Us Can Dream As Big As We Want.