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

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

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

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

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

We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering.

I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.