Bob Menendez Quotes

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Bob Menendez

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 1, 1954

Since the end of the Cold War, peace, prosperity, and progress have largely been the order of the day for hundreds of millions of people in the Americas, but not for the people of Cuba.

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Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and more Latinos are becoming entrepreneurs and businesspeople, contributing to the wealth and economic well-being of the nation.

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There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

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I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.

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We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

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There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

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Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

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I was the first in my family to go to college.

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I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.

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Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

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The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.

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My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

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Ultimately, the NRA has maybe five million members. We are a nation of 320 million-plus, and it's time we call out those who stand on the wrong side of history and spout the same old NRA talking points.

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The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.

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The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

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My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.

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We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.

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This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

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I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

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Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.

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