Javier Milei

My first diplomatic trip as president was to Israel, and I went there to express my support not only to the country but to the people.

You don't do economics based on the price of an individual asset.

You can't make a macroeconomic evaluation based on the situation of an individual.

We had a strategy to dollarize. It was to take the assets of the Central Bank against the national government, transfer those securities to the market, and get dollars.

Never embrace the ideals of socialism.

Don't get caught up in that terrible concept that where there is a need, there is a right.

Never allow yourself to be seduced by the siren song of social justice.

When I have some time, I listen to opera.

I would love to meet Mick Jagger in person!

I really like movies about mathematicians.

Moses was a great leader, right? But he wasn't a great communicator. And so God sent him Aaron so he could, let's say, communicate.

People support me because the Argentine people have understood that the other path is a road to misery.

From my point of view, Donald Trump has been able to understand that the key battle that needs to be waged is the battle against statists and socialists.

I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom.

We have decided to espouse the ideas of freedom, which are the foundation of the West and have brought so much prosperity to the world.

If I am a liberal-libertarian, it is clear that the book of Shemot, or if you want it in English, the book of Exodus, for me is absolutely revealing: it narrates the departure from Egypt to the promised land. So for me it is an epic.

The greatest liberator in all of human history is Moses. So let's say he's a libertarian leader without a doubt. Then there are some other people like Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher.

I have said that throughout history, there have been great leaders who have embodied freedom.

Neo-Marxists have managed to co-opt the common sense of the Western world, and this they have achieved by appropriating the media, culture, universities - and also international organizations.

Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges.

We believe in freedom to worship for everybody.

We believe in freedom of trade for everybody.

We believe in defending everyone's lives. We believe in defending everyone's property.

I don't care who my rivals are on the ballot, I will beat them all.

In terms of political logic, I am a mistake, because what I have come to do is in fact stamp out the privileges of politicians.

To the Argentines I would like to say that, despite the enormous problems the country has, despite the bleakness of the situation, Argentina has a future.

I've always been a hard worker. I'll admit I'm addicted to work.

Gary Becker has taken economic analysis to amazing levels. His doctoral thesis, which is related to economic discrimination, and his treatises on family, human capital, rational addictions, the economic approach to human behavior, and social economics are wonderful.

If we manage to remove the state enough for society to flourish, we will have succeeded because free economic activity will lead to benefits for all of society.

As developed countries become bogged down in unnecessary regulations and obligations, we remove the regulations that have bound our people for decades, and we invite capital from around the world to cooperate with Argentina because we understand free economic activity as the most natural act of cooperation of the human race.

Argentina is on the private sector side, not the state. On the side of those who work, those who trade, those who strive; on the side of those who take risks, those who invest, who innovate.

I don't believe that politicians are gods.

May God bless the Argentines and all the citizens of the world, and may the forces of heaven be with us.

I am an economist, a liberal libertarian economist, who has never had the ambition to be a politician and who was who was honored with the position of President of the Argentine Republic, in the face of the resounding failure of more than a century of collectivist policies - a century of collectivist policies that destroyed our country.

The only way out of poverty is more freedom.

As far as the Argentine political class is concerned, I would like to tell them that we are not here to persecute anyone, we are not here to settle old scores or to discuss power spaces. Our project is not a debt payment project, our project is a country project.

The Maccabean War is the symbol of the triumph of the weak over the mighty, of the few over the many, of light over darkness, and above all, of truth over lies, for you know that I would rather tell you an uncomfortable truth than a comfortable lie.

We will work side by side with all the nations of the free world to help build a better world.

We are not going to relinquish our sovereignty, nor are we going to seek conflict with the United Kingdom.

We come to embrace the ideas of a freedom that guarantees the prosperity of Argentines.

Mercosur is a customs union of poor quality that creates trade distortions and hurts its members.

I don't have socialist partners.

I don't have to get involved, but I won't promote ties with those who don't respect freedom.

Given the dismal failure of collectivist models and the undeniable advances in the free world, socialists were forced to change their agenda: they left behind the class struggle based on the economic system and replaced this with other supposed social conflicts, which are just as harmful to life and to economic growth.

The cornerstone of our creed is that all humans are created equal and that we all have the same inalienable rights granted by the Creator, including life, freedom and ownership.

Libertarianism already provides for equality of the sexes.

Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral.

I have no doubt that Elon Musk will be an active player with an important role in the new Argentina that is emerging from the decadence of 100 years of populism.

We have always said that we are libertarians. If people want to do business with China, they can.

We are not communists, we are libertarians.