Chris Dodd: “I think, too often, we talk to each other in this town and we don't talk to the people outside.”

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

It's far more complicated than a common language.

I frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.

I had hoped we'd get in the lame duck session to the ratification of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the Panamanian Free Trade Agreement.