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I've been a loud voice as a Democratic leader for years, but that's not my job now. My job is to represent fishermen and farmers - everyone.
Joe Garcia -
There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
Joe Garcia
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I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.
Joe Garcia -
If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.
Joe Garcia -
To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.
Joe Garcia -
You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
Joe Garcia -
The Koch brothers spent millions against me.
Joe Garcia -
When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.
Joe Garcia
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We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people - most are hard-working people.
Joe Garcia -
When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.
Joe Garcia -
Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.
Joe Garcia -
We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.
Joe Garcia -
The Cold War has ended for America.
Joe Garcia -
Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
Joe Garcia
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The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.
Joe Garcia -
There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.
Joe Garcia -
The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'
Joe Garcia -
The Mariel boatlift was probably one of the most strengthening events of the exile community; maybe Nietzschean, in the sense that if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
Joe Garcia -
People in Cuba are victims.
Joe Garcia -
Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.
Joe Garcia
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What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.
Joe Garcia -
The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.
Joe Garcia -
In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.
Joe Garcia -
Thousands of people in my district need health insurance, and ACA is helping them. I'm committed to do everything I can to help people get enrolled and get covered, and that includes moving needed reforms for the bill and helping people find affordable coverage.
Joe Garcia