Quotes from Alberto Fernandez

The government has returned to the hands of the people.

We will pay the debts by growing and exporting... The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.

We're going to stop paying the interest on Leliqs that Argentines are paying for every day.

Poverty has become a big problem.

Macri lost $100 billion. Argentina needs dollars to come back in.

Mr. Macri's government caused damage similar to what Argentina suffered in 2001: a debt default, no foreign-currency reserves, a steep devaluation and increased poverty.

Without bread, there is no present or future. Without bread, life only suffers.

I don't want to be Wall Street's candidate. I want to be Argentines' candidate.

Combining my love for charity and my love for exercise is a happy medium.

We prefer an orderly resolution to the debt crisis and we're moving in that direction. But the most important thing is that the deal we reach with creditors is sustainable.

There are no debt payments that can be sustained if the country does not grow.

Companies pay taxes, not individual persons. They do not pay for their wealth. And that must be changed.

The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.

There's no possibility that Argentina will fall into default if I'm president.

I believe in individual freedoms and I believe that the state must be present when the markets demand it.

Nobody believes Macri can pay back the debt.

Capitalism can't exist without demand.

We are going to be the Argentina we deserve to be.

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

I will do everything necessary to ensure we can export because that way Argentina will produce dollars.

I am a Peronist. I am growing the branches of progressive Peronist liberalism.

If I finish my term and have inflation down to a single digit, I will be very happy. That's four years of hard work.

Macri didn't understand anything. It wasn't a bad election, it was a terrible government.

I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.