Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Salinas

I can't see how the U.S. can possibly certify Colombia on human rights grounds or any other grounds.

The government of Colombia and even the United States do the same thing, ... If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail. Here we don't have jails, so we detain people.

There is no plan, and there is no proposal, and there is no idea of committing American forces in Colombia to do anything but ... providing training.

Our main concern at this time is to gain trust. Colombia can't take any more setbacks.

John McCain

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

Slovakia was a successful reformer, as was Colombia (even though) they have a low per-capita income,

Coming on the eve of that country's congressional and presidential elections, the waiver decision is intended to lay the groundwork for increased future cooperation and to support those in Colombia who are striving to strengthen the rule of law and buttress their embattled democracy,

Juan Pablo Montoya

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

Jan Schakowsky

If you look at the U.S. government data, our own data, there is as much coca today in Colombia and as much cocaine in the United States as there was 6 years ago.

Noam Chomsky

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

I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.

This is not unusual. Just in the past few months, we've postponed rounds with Ecuador three times, Panama twice and Colombia once.