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.

A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

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.

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

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

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.