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

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

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.'

Joe Garcia

I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.

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

John Kerry's record on Cuba is pretty bad.

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

As much as people want to call me a bomb-thrower, look at my record.

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

I've got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.

Joe Garcia

The Koch brothers spent millions against me.

Joe Garcia

I don't go to Washington to represent the president; I go to represent the people of this district.

Joe Garcia

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

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.

Joe Garcia

I have Obamacare; trust me - it's not perfect.

Joe Garcia

The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.

Joe Garcia

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.

Joe Garcia

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

Joe Garcia

If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

Joe Garcia

Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.

Joe Garcia

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.

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

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

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

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

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.

Joe Garcia