82 Quotes by Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.

We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue to pursue their agenda by legal means and not through violence.

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.