Juan Manuel Santos Quotes - Page 2

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Good Friend

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Years, Conflict, Settling

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

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• I don't like to generate too many expectations.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Expectations

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Perfect, Perfect Peace

  Source: www.univision.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of agreeing to dismantle the army, of jeopardizing private property, of giving the pensions of policemen to the guerillas - all kinds of lies. What they want is for people to be afraid of peace.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Lying, Army, Accusing Me

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

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• For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a dramatic change for our country - which has been suffering more than any other from the consequences of drug-trafficking.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Drug, Suffering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Strong, Latin, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

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• I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Accepting, Impunity, Guerrillas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Fighting, Terrorism, Process

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Making Peace

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

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

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Strong, Democracy, Colombia

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• I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Party, America

  "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role... that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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