The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Maybe I was little bit more aggressive than the average kid.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?