Top 30 Rafael Correa Quotes
#1. Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.
Andre Vltchek
#2. Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
Rafael Correa
#3. A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.
Henry Miller
#4. The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.
Edmund A. Opitz
#5. I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
Rafael Correa
#6. 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.
Rafael Correa
#7. All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.
Tony Robbins
#8. 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.
Rafael Correa
#9. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.
Rafael Correa
#10. To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa
#11. We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
Tony Dungy
#12. 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.
Rafael Correa
#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.
Rafael Correa
#14. I'm my own person, and people can say whatever they want. I'm still going to be the person that I am.
Lindsay Lohan
#15. Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
Rafael Correa
#16. If there was a Hell, my mom said you'd go there for wearing fur coats or buying a cream rinse tested on baby rabbits by escaped Nazi scientists in France.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. 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.
Rafael Correa
#18. 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.
Rafael Correa
#19. As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
as well have a hollow as a heart.
Robert Hayden
#20. 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.
Rafael Correa
#21. I've only got a handful of memories, and I don't want them wearing away, textures rubbing smooth, colors fading from overexposure. When I take them out, once in a blue moon, I need them bright enough to catch my breath and sharp enough to cut.
Tana French
#22. A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.
Rafael Correa
#23. Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.
Wole Soyinka
#24. We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Rafael Correa
#26. 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.
Rafael Correa
#28. 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.
Rafael Correa
#29. 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.
Rafael Correa
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