We are grateful that people throughout the United States are so willing to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Venezuela is privileged to be able to help the United States in this time of need. We see ourselves as a compassionate people and hope that our efforts will help cope with current market needs of the U.S. for gasoline, and provide some immediate relief to the victims of this horrific natural disaster.

I just came to help them, because the United States really needs them.

[He said that nobody likes the idea of people dying at the border,] but if the United States would gear up the political will to enforce its laws, it would actually be an act of compassion, ... The border is something the United States can certainly control. If we caught them, they wouldn't be losing their lives.

ideologies of Old Europe have condemned hundreds of millions of people to the economic slow track while the United States has accelerated into the distance, with India and China coming up on the rails.

I think the United States has a huge capacity but on the front end they don't want people to be waiting and suffering while the help arrives.