Rafael Correa Quotes

Ecuador, Economist
April 6, 1963

Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (Spanish pronunciation: [rafaˈel βiˈsente koˈre.a ðelˈɣaðo]; born 6 April 1963) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations.

Also known as Politician, Writer, University Teacher

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
- Deep
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
- Great
- Sin
- Construction

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

Rafael Correa
- Jungle
- Border
- Colombia
Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

Rafael Correa
- Life
- Country
- Right
I am an economist, not an astrologer.

Rafael Correa
- Economist
- Astrologer
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
- Good
- Power
- Bad
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
- People
- Up
- Believe
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.

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

Rafael Correa
- Giving
- Advice
- Who
What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

Rafael Correa
- Morning
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
I'm a pacifist by nature.

Rafael Correa
- Nature
- Pacifist

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Rafael Correa
- Freedom
- Day
- Name