Latest Juan Manuel Santos Quotes from Interviews

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• We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Attitude, Heart, Envy

• We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Past, Today, Amnesty

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Revolution, Results

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Interviews, Notify, Persons

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Harder

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Fighting, Government, Drug

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

• 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.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Realizing, Economic, Colombia

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Effort, Drug, Trafficking

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Humanity, World, Terrorist

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Making Peace, Know How

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Support, World

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Perfect, Perfect Peace

  Source: www.univision.com

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Facts, Rejects, Percent

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Enemy, Making Peace

  Source: www.univision.com

• At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue to pursue their agenda by legal means and not through violence.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, America, Want

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Jobs, Priorities, Social

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

• For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Years, Drug, Criminals

  "Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

• It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Latin, America

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Class, People, Growing

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Giving, Benefits, Should

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

• 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.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Mean, Jail

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Military, Support, Navy

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

• More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Optimistic, Agreement, Want

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Needs, Compromise

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.