The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Good fiction makes the truth believable.

Some girls are intimidated by my height, obviously. But a lot of girls do like it, so that's cool.

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.

U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.