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

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

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

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

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've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.