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I want total peace for Colombia.
Simply to have peace brings huge investment.
I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.
You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.
A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.
You will never hear me denigrating other countries.
We in Colombia always hope for Venezuela to prosper.
Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.
Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.
Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.
To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.
I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!
There are times for making war and times for making peace.
There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.
That's what peace processes are about - changing bullets for votes.
Colombians do not like the FARC. In fact, 95 percent reject the FARC.
That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.
The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.
It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.
I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.
One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.
I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.
In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.
Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.
Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.
Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.
My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.
Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.
If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.
That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.
The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.
There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.
I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.
Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.
I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.
No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.
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.
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.
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.
There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.
The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.