Joe Garcia Quotes
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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.
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To help advance democracy, we need to allow for the reunification of Cuban families and the direct sending of remittances to the island's brave dissidents.
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There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
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If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.
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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.
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You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
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Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.
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The Koch brothers spent millions against me.
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When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.
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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.
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Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.
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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.
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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.
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We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.
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There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.
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The Cold War has ended for America.
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What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.
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The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People in Cuba are victims.
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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.