Juan Manuel Santos quotes - page 2

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World. (Juan Manuel Santos)
Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.
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Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war.
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Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.
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I want total peace for Colombia.
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We in Colombia always hope for Venezuela to prosper.
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When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.
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There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.
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We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.
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My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.
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If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future. (Juan Manuel Santos)
That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.
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You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.
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We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.
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I don't like to generate too many expectations.
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The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.
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A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.
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The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.
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Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.
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The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.
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I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas! (Juan Manuel Santos)
I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.
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There are times for making war and times for making peace.
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I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.
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When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.
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