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The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope. -- Ronald Ross
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. -- S. I. Hayakawa
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. -- Jessica Savitch
Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American. -- Stephen Colbert
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States. -- William Howard Taft
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! -- Omar Torrijos Herrera
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there. -- J. August Richards
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. -- Alan Huffman

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