Colombia Quotes

I think what the United States, and everyone who cares about protecting the freedoms that the largest part of the free world now has, should do whatever it takes to end terrorism in the world and not just in the Middle East. I`m talking also about going to Colombia and doing whatever it takes to end the cocaine trade. It`s killing this country. It`s killing all the countries that coke goes into. I believe that somebody`s making money on it in the United States. If they weren`t making money on it, they would have stopped it. They could stop it in one day. It`s just a plant that they grow, and these guys are growing it like it`s corn or tobacco or any other thing. By the time it gets here, it becomes a billion dollar industry. And I think that`s a form of terrorism as well.

I spoke to the Colombians. It`s fine. I get passionate sometimes. I said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind. The drug problem has as much to do with what`s going on in this country. If there wasn`t a demand, there wouldn`t be a supply.

Of course I am trying to make my accent not bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

Colombia is a country of victims, and not of murderers.

I am trying to make my accent so it won`t bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

...if you do theater in Colombia you`ll die from hunger. Now I`m living in New York City. It`s changed my whole point of view on everything. Being independent, having a little apartment, cooking. In Colombia you live with your parents until you`re twenty-five and get a job and then get married.

In Colombia, in all of the soap operas, there`s a beauty queen, a model and the guy lead is from Ecuador or Peru or Venezuela, but not from Colombia. People like to see on the screen tall, skinny, beautiful models with blond or black hair who dress sexy. The way I dress and the way maybe I am, they didn`t like me.

discussed military-to-military cooperation and ways that the United States can continue to help as part of its security assistance program for Colombia.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that`s why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

Colombia is in a risky position. They`ve got a peace process that`s going nowhere, and a drug production problem that`s skyrocketing.

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.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia`s cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

We have enormous confidence in Colombia, enormous confidence in its government and enormous confidence in Colombia`s future.