Quotes from Joe Garcia

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

We did great things when we were in Congress, and I want to continue work on the issues that matter to South Florida, because we deserve better.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've got the most beautiful district. I can understand why Republicans want it.

Family is more important than ideology.

Bush is the Liberace of Cuban politics. He knows how to play us. He says every single thing they want to hear.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.