Colombia Quotes · Page 2

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

— Ingrid Betancourt

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

— Shakira

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

— Rafael Correa

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

— Pedro Pascal

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

— Juan Manuel Santos

The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

— Noam Chomsky

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

— Juan Manuel Santos

I realized that if I did well in Colombia, I could do well in the world.

— Nicky Jam

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called…

— Juan Manuel Santos

What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are…

— Noam Chomsky

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying…

— Shakira

I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the…

— Ingrid Betancourt

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives…

— Noam Chomsky

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our…

— Glenn Hoddle

During the 1990's, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US…

— Noam Chomsky

I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate…

— Noam Chomsky

I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had…

— Ingrid Betancourt

Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same…

— Juan Manuel Santos

A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can…

— Juan Manuel Santos

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the…

— Juan Manuel Santos

My maternal grandfather was born in Yorkshire in England but was contracted to work for a company who had a base in…

— Radamel Falcao

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

— J Balvin

“Marquez was not born in Colombia. He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy.

— Juan Pablo Montoya

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

— Pablo Escobar

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to…

— J Balvin

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have…

— Diane Guerrero

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

— Barbet Schroeder

California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder.

— Kali Uchis

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

“You are more love than ruins. I fall to tell you. Rejecting blow and mals. You embrace us and we feel it.”

— Gwen Calvo

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

— Noam Chomsky

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

— Juan Manuel Santos

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I came to attend high school in Massachusetts when I was about 15 years old.

— Nina Garcia

And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich…

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,…

— Noam Chomsky