As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!
It's in the interest of the U. S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.
I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.
Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.
You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. . . Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. . . It's like trying to control a dream.
If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.