Juan Manuel Santos Quotes

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

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.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make 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.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

Colombians do not like the FARC. In fact, 95 percent reject the FARC.

I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.

No one, no one has hit the FARC harder than I have.

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.

I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.

The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.

I don't like to generate too many expectations.

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.