Quote

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
Epidemiologist
Politician
President Of Chile
Surgeon
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Political
Seemed
Critical
Consolidating
Creating
Chile
Healthy
Civic
Military
Civics
Democracy
Task
History
Tasks
Given
Relationships

More quotes by Michelle Bachelet

Image
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
I'm working for the women in the world, today that's my essential issue.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
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.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this is also a universal phenomenon. There's also disenchantment with politics in Europe.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
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.
Michelle Bachelet
Image
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Michelle Bachelet