Larry Birns Quotations

One wounded president goes to visit another wounded president.

Rice has an enormous task to repair the present disarray in which we find U.S.-Latin American relations.

Here you have an elected leader with skills and money who doesn't throw people in jail and pull out their fingernails. That's what makes him so dangerous.

He (Chavez) is popular because he needles the United States and he talks like the average Latin American would talk.

Will the administration be wise enough to pull back from its hostile attitude? What is needed is a sober accounting of what is needed, instead of turning to the CIA.

When President Bush arrives in Mar del Plata he will find himself at odds with some of his counterparts who see the future differently,

There has to be a refiguring and recalibration of the role of the security forces and a clarification of what the U.N. role should be.

There is not a huge reserve of goodwill at the moment. It is so far off from a meaningful relationship.

The Bush administration has tried to make Venezuela seem like a spooky, murky place. But they have cried wolf too often. Without serious evidence, you can't take their accusations seriously.

This is being done devoid of public scrutiny. I personally think that it's outrageous that the US government can dispose funds with no real consultation.

It's a decisive moment, ... It's not Chavez's nasty tongue that has earned him Washington's odium. It is his policies. What he stands for is a declining role for the U.S. in Latin America.

The U.S. and the international community has a failed policy in that it has not promoted security and democracy in Haiti. The election, if and when it takes place, will be as controversial as elections in Iraq.

How are you going to retaliate for keeping people warm for winter? It's a pretty brilliant strategy.

Chavez's antics are a form of merriment for him. He's part buffoon, part visionary and part deadly effective strategist.