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

I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

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

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.

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

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.