Rafael Correa Quotes

#1. If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

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#2. I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

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#3. I am an economist, not an astrologer.

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#4. There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

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#5. I'm a pacifist by nature.

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#6. We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

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#7. A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

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#8. They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

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#9. We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

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#10. It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

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#11. Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

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#12. Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

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#13. Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.

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#14. After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

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#15. To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

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#16. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

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#17. The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

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#18. The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

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#19. I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

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