"I am called 'the poorest president' but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more."
"This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, therefore you have more time for yourself."
Mr Jose Mujica, 77, President of Uruguay, 2012. Interviewed by BBC.
Note: He donates about 90 percent of his US$12,000 monthly salary to charities supporting small entrepreneurs and the poor. His preferred means of transport is a 1987 Volkswagen Bettle worth US$1800.
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