Rafael Correa Quotes

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Rafael Correa

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 6, 1963

I'm a pacifist by nature.

Rafael Correa

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

Rafael Correa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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I am an economist, not an astrologer.

Rafael Correa