No one, no one has hit the FARC harder than I have.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

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.

The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.

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

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

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