Panama Quotations

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Since Panama City is a pretty developed city, the outskirts get kind of ignored.

I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation... I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter.

I loved it, I really did. It was an opportunity to go back and represent my country. People in Panama are very excited about it and think we have a very good team -- some think we're going to win it all. It's going to be tough, but anything is possible in baseball. We could have a good team or be hot and things can happen.

We talked about what would be fun and what would be worthwhile. We were thinking about maybe something like Habitat for Humanity. But everything was either out of our price range or beyond our time frame. Then one of the Campus Crusade members talked to us about either going to Panama City, Florida or New Orleans to help out with Katrina relief and we felt New Orleans would be worthwhile.

Panama City Beach was the smart guys - they have an engineered beach. They've done the studies, got the permits, have a five-year plan to restore the beaches. We tried to get that done, but, unfortunately, we didn't. I just hired a beach project manager.

Panama has become the fifth trading partner of China in Latin America while China is the second largest user of the Panama Canal.

Panama played with their heart. That's why we won, ... Today, my players understood the system I've been trying to teach them.

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

Where do they teach you to talk like that? At some Panama City sailor wanna hump hump bar, oor is this getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell craziness somewhere else we're all filled up here.

We did two different services there plus we sent a team to some places of Panama that were eight hours away by boat and then quite a ways by foot, in some of the really hard to reach places.

While Mr. Trudeau was in office and I was president in 1977, we celebrated the signing of the Panama Canal treaties, and in recent years, we worked together on hemispheric issues at The Carter Center, ... We will remember him as a vibrant and charismatic man who applied his talents to further Canada and later, other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

We have seen an increase in travelers during the spring holiday over the last two years, and we know consumers are increasingly looking to book vacation rentals as their accommodations. We are very confident that this trend will continue, so the city of Panama Beach is investing in its infrastructure as investors unfold their plans for vacation lodging. In fact, the number of condo properties is projected to increase from 83 to 130 between 2006 and 2007 and the number of condominium units is forecast to increase from 8,712 to 27,929 -- a 320 percent increase.

Corporate America has discovered Panama City Beach to be the ideal location for a strong promotional presence. The destination is a natural draw, with its award-winning beaches and first-rate parks, restaurants and accommodations. International companies see us as the perfect destination for mass-market research and promotions.

It was very important for me to play in this tournament. I feel like I owe it to my country. I have been playing in the United States, and I have been doing good. But for me to represent my country and wear the Panamanian jersey makes my family and my friends back in Panama very proud.

We all travel on the third and we will also send one member of staff to see the Mexico/Guatemala game just to have the latest update before we play them. We already know Panama and it's down to us now to prepare well and get the job completed,

Our concern is that we get a truth. We have reason to doubt our state based on what has happened in Panama City.

This is important to clarify, because a lot of people don't understand that I came in '69 and then went back to Panama to finish school.

This is not unusual. Just in the past few months, we've postponed rounds with Ecuador three times, Panama twice and Colombia once.

I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.

The family is gravely concerned whether they will get justice or not. You have to worry about small-town justice in a place like Panama City.

In 2003, Taiwan and Panama signed an FTA. One year after that (pact) was signed, the trade volume (between those two countries) more than doubled, or grew 112 percent,

Ford Ironman Florida continues to grow due to the high turnout of age-group triathletes as well as major pros competing in the event, ... The venue in Panama City attracts new athletes each year, and many pros come back to race before the season ends.

Everyone on the ship is trying to decide if we should deliver the ship via the Panama Canal or the Northwest Passage.

They had seen me performing in Panama, but in Panama I had to quit performing because teachers in the national university were against my performing.

It is the equivalent of building the Panama Canal.

I can't believe it, ... The president of Panama told me, 'You have no idea what you've done for our country.' He said people were jumping in the streets.

For the Panama Canal a couple of years ago we did a balcony, since there is more to see and there were six ports of call in 12 days. Most of our cruises, we have stayed in a cabin with a window just to get the feel of a larger room and to check the weather before going out.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

All of these other countries have schools. You look at the riders from Panama , and Peru , and Ireland , and these guys are starting at an advantage. We're the country with the best racing, but we don't have a school for jockeys. Riders here have to learn from their competition.

The main part is for the players to play with the same attitude they have when they play at home, for instance in the Guatemala and Panama games we won before. We have to go for the win from the first moment, from when we are on the plane to when we are back on the bus after the match in Panama.

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.