"That's why Senators Isakson, Durbin, Wicker, and I will soon introduce a resolution welcoming independence and congratulating the people of South Sudan."
"That's why both the international community and the United States, in my view, must continue their sustained efforts to urge peaceful resolution."
"I think other countries in Latin America will engage with that, and at some time the United States will have to think about in what way it could constructively engage with that."
"That's different from somebody who's running and saying things we don't like, but ultimately is governing in an effective way."
"Economic growth alone is probably not as effective as economic growth with sensible, well-targeted social policies."
"The most successful antipoverty program certainly in Latin America, but not just there, has been economic growth."
"It is probably easier and more effective for the U.S. Government to work with and support the countries that already have constitutional democratic regimes."
"But they won an election. So the challenge there for us... is how do we separate those two."
"I think that the way in which Humala governs will depend a lot on his circumstances."
"I think it's started, because I think that the economic changes that the government has announced, modest though they are, hemmed in though they are by all kinds of restrictions, I think for the first..."
"Imagine how much worse off Mexico would be today, facing the challenges it faces, if it didn't have this democratic institution."