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We'e going to be taking the oil

I just hope the protesters in Iran are going to be safe, because that's a very dangerous place right now.

I think that we should let everybody go out there and see who emerges.

You better not start shooting because we'll start shooting too.

I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way.

We are locked and loaded and ready to go.

What we do have an expectation is that – that it move in that direction.

We arrested a narcotrafficker who's now going to stand trial in the United States for the crimes he's committed against our people for 15 years.

That's what happened here.

These things take time. There's a process.

That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time?

We want to see all of that happen. We insist on seeing that happen.

We are going to judge everything by what they do, and we're going to see what they do.

In the 21st Century, under the Trump administration… we are not going to have a country like Venezuela in our own hemisphere.

That's just not going to exist.

The people don't benefit from it.

We are not going to have a country like Venezuela in our own hemisphere in the sphere of control and the crossroads for Hezbollah, for Iran and for every other malign influence in the country.

Their oil industry is completely destroyed. It's destroyed.

We think it's in our national interest, and frankly, in the interest of people of Venezuela.

We are going to judge whoever we're interacting with moving forward by whether or not those conditions are met.

We will seize it. That remains in place, and that's a tremendous amount of leverage that will continue to be in place until we see changes.

We are addressing the factors that are a threat to the national interest of the United States.

We have been very clear from the beginning, because I still think that a lot of people analyze everything that happens in foreign policy through the lens of what happened from 2001 through 2015 or '16.

This is one of the most, you know, daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time.