“It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth...” — Tabare Vazquez Quote

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

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

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

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

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.

What is a fair way to structure our economy? To handle those who did not come to America legally? To distribute scarce public resources and benefits?

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

We needed overtime laws, we needed unionization, we needed to figure out how to distribute the Industrial Revolution's gains with equity, and we're going through something similar with the technology revolution.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.