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.

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.

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.

She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

Ask, believing you have already received, And you shall receive

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

My son has died of AIDS.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.