Joe Garcia Quotes

Joe Garcia

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 12, 1963

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

We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.

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

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

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

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

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

The Cold War has ended for America.

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Family is more important than ideology.

Joe Garcia

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

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

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

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

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

Everybody wants to have the president talk about their issue.

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

There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.

Joe Garcia

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

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

Joe Garcia

We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.

Joe Garcia