I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?""What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals.

Finally, this book has the potential to radically alter your understanding of who you really are—your high calling as one of the “sons of God.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities.

I like it when I can get really abstract.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.