Barack Obama actually said...

"administration policy toward the Americas will be guided by the simple principle that what is good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States."

"The current United States-Brazil relationship provides a foundation for a deeper, more comprehensive partnership between our two countries."

"It makes both moral and strategic sense to lift the restrictions on family visits and family cash remittances to Cuba."

"For too long, we have ceded the playing field to Hugo Chavez--a democratically elected leader who does not govern democratically."