Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.

Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on.

Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.

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

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