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.

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.

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

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 spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.

I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.