Rafael Correa Quotes

• Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only find dignity and sovereignty. Here we haven't invaded anyone. Here we don't torture like in Guantanamo. Here we don't have drones killing alleged terrorist without any due trial, killing also the women and children of those supposed terrorists. So don't come lecturing us about life, law, dignity, or liberty. You don't have the moral right to do so.

  Rafael Correa

  Children, Reality, Law

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• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  Rafael Correa

  Country, Ecuador, Right To Life

  "Julian Assange asylum application may take time, says Ecuador president" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Assuming, Power Corrupts, Absolute Power

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

  Rafael Correa

  Play, News, Should

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Trying, Fool, United States

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Hands, Oil, Amazon

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Sin, Socialism, Construction

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• 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

  Fighting, Government, Media

  "Ecuador's Correa pardons media accusers in libel case" by Eduardo Garcia, uk.reuters.com. February 27, 2012.

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• What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Mechanisms of exploitation were imposed, such as outsourcing, labor mediation, and the like.The results are plain to see: greater inequality in Latin America; unemployment is higher than in previous decades; we haven't resolved the problem of poverty; we've lost a great deal of sovereignty.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, Insane, Poverty

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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

  Country, Believe, People

  "Ecuador's leader hotly denies FARC gave him money". www.cnn.com. July 19, 2009.

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

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, America, Accumulation

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.

  Rafael Correa

  Competition, Individualism, Victim

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Rafael Correa

  Giving, Advice, Accustomed

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Country, Wish, Kingdoms

  "Julian Assange asylum application may take time, says Ecuador president" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Reflection, Decision, President

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• There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent individual with the right intentions. So I think things are going to change in terms of U.S. foreign policy, especially with respect to Latin America.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, Thinking, President

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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

  Latin, America, People

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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