Panama Quotes

• 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

  West, Revolution, United States

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Peace, War, Squares

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• A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama

  Guy Steele

  Hero, Men, Camels

  Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier

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• I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

  Jenna Bush

  Kids, Lucky, Picks

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• A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Pride, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography”, p.495, Open Road Media

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• I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

  Mariano Rivera

  Country, Missing, Preference

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• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  William Jacob Holland

  Life, Animal, Moon

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• The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows.

  Noam Chomsky

  Invasion, Crime, Nobody Knows

  Source: progressive.org

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

  Dave Barry

  Marine, Two, Leader

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

  Andrew Evans

  Retirement, Class, Republic

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• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

  Jessica Savitch

  Important Events, Panama Canal, Months

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.

  Tony Hale

  Beach, Redneck, Thinking

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• 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

  Want, Panama Canal, Canals

  Stephen Colbert's address at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Hilton Washington hotel, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2006.

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• The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Panama Canal, Microscopes

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• And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Albums, Firsts

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• The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile... is well-documented and widely known.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Government, Guatemala

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• Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'

  Michael Parenti

  School, Marine, Order

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• I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

  Don King

  Snow, Boxing, Pay

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• There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

  Rod Carew

  Cheer, Fun, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Jobs, Colorado River, Rivers

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• The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

  Juan Enriquez

  Borders, Lasts, Continents

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!

  Gwen Ifill

  Mother, Fun, Father

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Couple, Years, Land

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