When labor and environmental issues are directly trade-related, included within the negotiating document or trade agreement will be references to [those issues,]

Free trade is no panacea -- for Colombia to fully benefit from this deal it will need to accompany the agreement with sound economic policies that boost competitiveness.

We will continue to mobilize and radicalize the protests in favor of life and against the free-trade agreement. There will be neither dialogue nor contact with the government.

We have always said that this is not an endless loop in which we will just keep repeating the same episodes over and over again.

The president obviously wants the flexibility to bring together a team that will serve him and serve the nation well. The president also has a lot of loyalty.

The president's getting a lot of advice about things he might do in the days ahead, and he will do what he chooses to do and what he believes is right to do.