"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."

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Source : "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

Juan Manuel Santos

#Loyalty Quotes #Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.”
“I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.”
“Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.”
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
“He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.”

Source : Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.”
“To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.”
“It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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