Words matter. These are the best Joe Garcia Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
There is nothing that I didn’t get to do while I was serving in Congress – except be in the majority.
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.
We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people – most are hard-working people.
There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.
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.
When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.
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.’
More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.
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.
There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
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.
Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn’t change the dynamic with Castro.
I have Obamacare; trust me – it’s not perfect.
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.
My grandfather died under house arrest.
If you give everybody a good government job, there’s no crime.
The Koch brothers spent millions against me.
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.
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.
The Democratic voters of the 26th district know me well, and I am confident I will have their support.
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.
The Cold War has ended for America.
We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.
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.
Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.
As much as people want to call me a bomb-thrower, look at my record.
I’ve got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.
You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
I’ve got the most beautiful district. I can understand why Republicans want it.
I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.
John Kerry’s record on Cuba is pretty bad.
I think more civil society programs, more free enterprise, more contacts with their fellow brethren in Miami – that’s good for the long-term, and that’s an investment in America’s long-term relationship with the Cuban people, not the Cuban government.
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.
I don’t go to Washington to represent the president; I go to represent the people of this district.
What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.
It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century.
Family is more important than ideology.
Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
The people who support Mr. Curbelo’s campaign are people who oppose Medicare and Social Security, want to reform it to take it away from our seniors, and oppose a minimum wage.
I’m have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.
We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.
The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.
