​​Nathaniel Branden

 

”Jose, If you succeed in your efforts to privatize social security, I cannot think of any other reform that could compare in importance not only for our economy but also for the independence and autonomy of our citizens.

 

I am absolutely overwhelmed with admiration for what you have accomplished and for what I am convinced you are going to accomplish.

 

I don’t have words that are strong enough to convey my admiration for you and what you are doing”

 

Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand's foremost disciple, intellectual collaborator and author of  The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem ("Conference "Communicating the Message of Free Market Capitalism” sponsored by Foundation Francisco Marroquin; Fairmount Miramar, Santa Monica, California, April 15th 2003)

 

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Robert Zoellick

 

"One of the great things in this Free Trade Agreement is that we have some additional access in Chile to pension fund management, within a social security system that I wish we could imitate."

 

Robert Zoellick, United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative (Press conference after the signing of an historic Free Trade Agreement between Chile and the United States, December 11, 2002). 

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Anne Applebaum

 

"There are famous pro-Americans, even on the generally anti-American continents of Europe and Latin America. 

 

Political reformers such as Vaclav Havel, who has spoken of how the U.S. Declaration of Independence inspired his own country's founding fathers. 

 

Economic reformers such as José Piñera, the man who created the Chilean pension system, who admire American economic liberty. 

 

Thinkers such as the Iraqi intellectual Kanan Makiya, who openly identify the United States with the spread of political freedom. 

 

All of these are people with very clear, liberal, democratic philosophies”.

 

Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize for her book “Gulag” (In Search of Pro-Americanism, Foreign Policy, July/August, 2005).

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