Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I want total peace for Colombia. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Peace
Total
Want
Related Quotes:
" I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Hope
America
Country
" There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Everybody
Colombia
Who
" Good friends don't have to visit each other every day. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Good Friends
Day
Visit
" That's what peace processes are about - changing bullets for votes. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Changing
Peace
Processes
" We in Colombia always hope for Venezuela to prosper. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Always
Venezuela
Hope
" No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Solution
Hit
End
" That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them. "
Juan Manuel Santos
High
Objectives
My Life
" Simply to have peace brings huge investment. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Huge
Brings
Investment
" I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Trade
Am
Fair
" I say that building peace is like building a cathedral. You have to have a solid base, and then you do it brick by brick. But the process is irreversible. There's no way back. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Brick
Building
Process
" Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Peace
War
Much
" There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Crazy
War
Want
" 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. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Poverty
Problems
World
" Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working. "
Juan Manuel Santos
You
Walk
Walking
" The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Now
Politics
Political
" Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda. "
Juan Manuel Santos
High
Corruption
Agenda
" During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla groups emerged, seeking to destabilize military dictatorships and attain democracy, freedom, and policy reform - goals that they believed could not be achieved peacefully. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Democracy
Goals
War
" It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Democracy
Strong
Colombia
" Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Small
Here
American
" Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Streets
Walk
Democracy
" 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
World
Imagine
Live
" You will never hear me denigrating other countries. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Other
You
Will
" Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Good
Think
Loyalty
" There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Colombia
Correct
Inequality
" I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Today
Country
Light
" My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Sky
Attract
Here
" Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Hurt
United
United States
" That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Why
Military
Peace
" 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. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Much
Defense
War
" Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe. "
Juan Manuel Santos
Done
Reputation
Attention