"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."

-- Juan Manuel Santos

#Country Quotes #Light Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“If you're not running through chaos together with kids, you're not really playing together.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.”
“I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.”
“Never confuse activity with action.”
“It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.”
“I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.”
“There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.”

Source : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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