I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security,… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back! — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
