I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

Okay, who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.