When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

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.

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

Enemies strike at weak points.

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

Love is the reason you were born.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.