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Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska. -- Carlos Mencia
Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America. -- George J. Borjas
Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy. -- James T. Walsh
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now. -- Ronald Reagan
The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States. -- Jackie Jackson
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there. -- Frances Mayes
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation. -- Roger Mahony
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent. -- Malcolm X
I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort? -- Rick Perry
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. -- Stephen F. Lynch
In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. -- Thomas Gumbleton
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides. -- Laura Chinchilla
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now. -- Ronald Reagan
When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize. -- Grace Paley
The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it. -- Fred Barnes
The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom and opportunity are not just for the elite, but the birthright of every citizen; that property is not just something enjoyed by a few, but can be owned by any individual who works hard and makes correct decisions. -- Ronald Reagan
I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president. -- Al Franken
One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now." -- Rafe Esquith
I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil. -- Chuck Klosterman
I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems. -- Oscar Arias
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future. -- Oscar Arias
Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed. -- Noam Chomsky
Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough. -- Oscar Arias
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. -- Alvaro Uribe
I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite. -- Bill Richardson
The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. Millions of men and women share dreams of freedom and progress. -- Oscar Arias
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States. -- Noam Chomsky
We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences. -- Dannel Malloy
We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan. -- Oscar Arias
When I was 15 and then 16 years old, I spent two summers in Nicaragua for a service project. I took Spanish classes the first week and got acclimated to Central America. I loved it. -- Eden Sher
The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington. -- Oscar Arias
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. -- Stephen F. Lynch
I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations. -- Russ Feingold
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States. -- Joe Biden
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics. -- Isabel Allende
We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights. -- Oscar Arias
But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States government has - don't come, it's dangerous. You will be immediately deported. That's literally what it says in Spanish. -- Mark Krikorian
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal. -- Alexis Arguello
The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of pretext. We can no longer use the Russians as an excuse, as we did in Central America in the 1980's, so drugs will have to do. -- Noam Chomsky
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. -- Madeleine Albright
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. -- Henry Louis Gates
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. -- Walter A. McDougall
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. -- Stanley Hauerwas
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government. -- Jim Leach
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. -- Mitt Romney
If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America. -- Cory Booker
I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy. -- Charles Olson
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies. -- Warren Christopher
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America. -- Lajos Kossuth

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