Joe Garcia Quotes
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There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.
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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.
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I'm have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.
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Everybody wants to have the president talk about their issue.
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The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.
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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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Bush is the Liberace of Cuban politics. He knows how to play us. He says every single thing they want to hear.
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A day does not go by when I am not in a line at a store or at a McDonald's, and someone will touch my hand, and they will say, 'Thank you.'
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The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.
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The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.
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I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.
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There is nothing that I didn't get to do while I was serving in Congress - except be in the majority.
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Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.
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The Republican Party views Hispanics in terms of market share: Who are they? How do we reach them? Democrats still view us in terms of quotas.