Colombia Quotes

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I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

I just want to serve Colombia.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

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.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

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.

Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

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

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

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

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.

If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.

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

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

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.

What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

Bye, bye! I'm from Colombia! I'm Sofia Vergara!

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.

I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

Colombians might live in one of best places in the world to grow coffee beans, yet their cups of coffee come from dehydrated granules in tiny plastic packages. This is the definition of tragedy.

Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha.