🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Our job is to integrate combat power so we can deliver overwhelming force anywhere in the world. I am immensely proud of our joint force, and I am filled with gratitude to represent them. There is simply no mission too difficult for our men." - General Dan "Raizin" Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Our forces remain in the region, prepared to defend ourselves and project power in the region." - General Dan "Raizin" Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Secretary of State Marco Rubio has taken the podium.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Maduro was offered many, many, many generous offers, and the result is what we saw this morning." - Secretary of State Rubio.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Our President is not a game-player. When he says something, he means it. This is a President of action. I don't understand how they haven't figured this out." - Secretary of State Rubio.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "This guy [Maduro] had every opportunity to go elsewhere with his wife. But he wanted to play big boy, and he found out." - Secretary of State Rubio.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "I guess he learned his lesson last night." - Secretary of State Rubio.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Well, you know, we're not afraid to have boots on the ground. We had boots on the ground last night. But we're going to make sure that country [Venezuela] is run properly." - President Trump when asked if US troops will be boots on the ground in Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We're gonna give money to the people, we're gonna reimburse people that have been taken advantage of." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We [Rubio, Hegseth, Caine, Trump] are gonna run the country [Venezuela] for the time being." - President Trump, when asked who will be running Venezuela on the interim.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡️- "Well, he has cocaine mills, and they're sending it into the United States. So yes, he [Petro] has to watch his ass." - President Trump when asked if Colombian President Gustavo Petro should be afraid.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "This was a law enforcement mission to apprehend a wanted fugitive, so Congress did not have to be notified." - Secretary of State Rubio.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Congress will leak, and we don't want leakers." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "It could've happened." - President Trump when asked if Maduro could have been killed during the operation.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "With me, that's not true. We've had a perfect track record of winning. We win. A lot." - President Trump when asked by a reporter if the US would add to its 'poor track record' of ousting dictators in Latin America.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We have to rebuild Venezuela. Their infrastructure is rotted. Oil is very dangerous, it's a dangerous thing to take out of the ground. The infrastructure is old, it's rotted, much of it is stuff we put there 25 years ago. We're gonna be replacing it." - President Trump when asked how long the US would run Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "You're gonna have peace, justice, you're gonna have some of the riches that you should've had a long time ago. You're gonna have safety, you're gonna have a real country." - President Trump, when asked what he has to say to the Venezuelan people.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We know who they are, we're on them, and they're acting much differently than they acted two days ago." - President Trump when asked if he's concerned about 'bad actors' from the Maduro regime.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- "The people there have suffered for many years. I think Cuba is something that we'll end up talking about, because they're a badly failing nation." - President Trump when asked if Cuba is next.

🇺🇸🇨🇴🇨🇺⚡️- President Trump implies that future military action against Colombia and Cuba may occur.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "No. We're gonna have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil." - President Trump when asked if American troops will be boots on the ground in Venezuela.