"I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic."

"I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process."

"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."

"Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position."

"What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy."

"We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000."

"One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos."

"Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence."

"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside."