Cristina Fernández de Kirchner quotes

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as the President of Argentina. One of the most influential leaders in modern Argentine history, she played a key role in shaping the nation's political landscape. She currently serves as Vice President, continuing her significant impact on the country’s governance. Here are 13 of her quotes:

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Our society needs women to be more numerous in decision-making positions and in entrepreneurial areas. We always have to pass a twofold test: first to prove that, though women, we are no idiots, and second, the test anybody has to pass.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

I feel honored to belong to a generation that was a propitious victim of state terrorism.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

In Latin America we can give cathedra about harassment and seizure.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Memory and freedom must be everybody's daily exercise in order to prevent a new holocaust and a renewed violation of human rights.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

You can be sure that all and each one of us who have institutional responsibilities will raise not only our voice but will take concrete action against any sign of anti-Semitism. We are not willing to give away what has been a historic tradition in Latin America.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

The utopias of a better world and a more just society have to do with words, with the generation of dreams, with imagination, with a very important identity that overcomes languages and is the identity of the human condition, to be able to recognize our own image in every fellow man, in a different age. I believe that the key to our time lies in this respect for diversity.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Where do you imagine Evita to stand: asking not to go back to the past, or next to the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo?.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Peronism is so much like Argentines. We Peronists, just like all Argentines, are capable of spawning the most generous actions and the most sublime individuals, as well as the most despicable actions. That's how contradictory we are. When kidnapping was rife in this country and people were made to disappear and thrown into the river, the defenders of press freedom went AWOL.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner