Gregory Meeks actually said...

"We have to spend, I believe, less time worrying about other countries and more time getting our own policies right in a post-Cold War period."

"Latin America, indeed, has changed, and I think that the region is now more capable, more economically secure, and more open to the world."

"The number one factor, I believe, affecting U.S. relations with Latin America is how the United States conducts itself in the region."

"I have long said that we have not engaged Latin America, South America, the Caribbean, and Central America in the methods that we should."