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14 quotes by Rafael Correa

Rafael Correa President of Ecuador Incumbent Assumed office 15 January 2007 Vice President Jorge Glas Lenín Moreno Preceded by Alfredo Palacio President pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations In office 10 August 2009 – 26 November 2010 Preceded by Michelle Bachelet Succeeded by Bharrat Jagdeo President pro tempore of Celac Incumbent Assumed office 28 January 2015 Preceded by Luis Guillermo Solís Chairman of the PAIS Alliance...
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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.

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

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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.

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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... →

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

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I'm a pacifist by nature.

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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... →

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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... →

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I am an economist, not an astrologer.

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