Quotes from Joe Garcia


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We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.


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.'


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.


The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.


The truth is that the driver in policy is not the relationship between the United States and Cuba, but the relationship between Cubans, and that is far stronger than 50 years of intragovernment hostility.


When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.


What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.


What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.


We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.


We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people - most are hard-working people.


You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.


We did great things when we were in Congress, and I want to continue work on the issues that matter to South Florida, because we deserve better.


We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.


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.


Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.


There is nothing to regret with a job well done.


There is nothing that I didn't get to do while I was serving in Congress - except be in the majority.


There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.


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.


The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.