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

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.

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.

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.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it. (on the Champions League)