Joe Garcia Quotes

Joe Garcia

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 12, 1963

I will never be done with South Florida.

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

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

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

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

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

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

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.

Joe Garcia

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

I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.

Joe Garcia

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

Joe Garcia

My grandfather died under house arrest.

Joe Garcia

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

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

People in Cuba are victims.

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

More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

Joe Garcia

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.

Joe Garcia

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

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

Joe Garcia