Tabare Vazquez Quotations

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

We must win back the trust of both domestic and foreign investors. For that, we are taking the proper steps.

I think that we are going to reach a solution to this problem. One is that, to negotiate, they have to lift the illegal roadblocks that are being carried out in Argentina; and the second is that the construction of the plants will not stop.

The left has not been impermeable to the neo-liberal cultural revolution, and has incorporated some of its elements, like the need for fiscal balance, open trade and competitiveness.