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My grandfather died under house arrest.

- Joe Garcia

Grandfather, House, Died, Arrest

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

- Joe Garcia

Line, Move, A Good Thing, Purposeful

Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

- Joe Garcia

Faith, Congress, No Wonder, Partisan

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

Reason, South, Whole, Portugal

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.

- Joe Garcia

Exception, Through, Other, Hispanics

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

Reach, Democrats, Still, Hispanics

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

- Joe Garcia

Change, Grandma, Castro, Sending

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

Think, I Think, Particularly, Status Quo

I've been a loud voice as a Democratic leader for years, but that's not my job now. My job is to represent fishermen and farmers - everyone.

- Joe Garcia

Leader, Voice, Loud, Fishermen

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.

- Joe Garcia

Insurance, Needed, Helping, Helping People

People in Cuba are victims.

- Joe Garcia

People, Victims, Cuba

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

- Joe Garcia

Last, Castro, Took, None

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

Been, Castro, Given, None

The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.

- Joe Garcia

Miami, Better, Poorest, Havana

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.

- Joe Garcia

Away, Social, Mr, Medicare

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

Politics, Career, Always, Public Affairs

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.

- Joe Garcia

War, Cold, Cold War, Shocking

The Cold War has ended for America.

- Joe Garcia

War, Cold, Ended, Cold War

I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.

- Joe Garcia

Making, Congress, South, Real Difference

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.

- Joe Garcia

Every Day, I Think, Before, Manipulate

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

Small, Over, Which, Cuba

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.

- Joe Garcia

United, Years, United States, Cuba

John Kerry's record on Cuba is pretty bad.

- Joe Garcia

Bad, Pretty, Record, Cuba

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

- Joe Garcia

Washington, Go, District, Represent

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.

- Joe Garcia

Good, I Think, Enterprise, Brethren

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

- Joe Garcia

Year, Florida, Perish, Context

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

- Joe Garcia

Help, Some, Barriers, Remove

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

- Joe Garcia

Here, Always, Sure, Vote

I'm have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.

- Joe Garcia

Records, Congress, Most, Moderate

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

- Joe Garcia

High, Brothers, Negatives, Attacking

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