SEC. OF STATE, MARCO RUBIO: They are not going to come from outside of our hemisphere destabilize our region in our own backyard and us have to pay the price for it.

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This is the Western Hemisphere this is where we live and we're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries competitors and Rivals of the United States.  --US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

Under our new National Security strategy American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.  --President Donald Trump

The Americans will be the beacon of light that will once again illuminate the entire West.  --Argentine President, Javier Milei

Kevin, it's great to see you you traveled to the Panama Canal.  --Maria Bartiromo

We traveled here for two reasons.  The first is to help our friends in Panama understand that what president Trump and his administration are doing is correcting several decades of American neglect across the Western Hemisphere.  But the second reason is to learn from our great allies here.  --Kevin Roberts

As I said I'll say again we've only just begun striking Narco boats and putting Narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean.  US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth

They are not going to come from outside of our hemisphere destabilize our region in our own backyard and us have to pay the price for it.  Not under President Trump.  --US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

And I think it's good news that a dictator has been arrested and possibly the leader of drug trafficking and organized crime that affected the destinies of all the nations surrounding him.  --Jose Antonio Kast, President of Chile

I want to assure the Venezuelan people Venezuela is going to be free and that's going to be achieved with the support of the people of the United States and the president Donald Trump.  --Maria Corina Machado, President of Venezuela

That democracy is always a better system than the lack of democracy and dictatorship.  We are never better if we are divided we need to unite.  --Santiago Peña, President of Paraguay