Jose Mujica
Jose Mujica
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordanois a Uruguayan politician who was the 40th President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015. A former urban guerrilla fighter with the Tupamaros, he was imprisoned for 13 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 May 1935
CountryUruguay
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
I learned that one can always start again.