For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

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.

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

Either way, we'll ride out together. That's how it is with soul mates. Thats just what they do.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

I do believe there's life other than on our planet.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I am a total me, me, Me person.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.