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.
I've got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.
I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.
My grandfather died under house arrest.
I've got the most beautiful district. I can understand why Republicans want it.
If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.
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.'
We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 Cold War has ended for America.
Family is more important than ideology.
You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
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.
Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.
When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.
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.
