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
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.’ – 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
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 have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people – most are hard-working people. – 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
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
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
I’m have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation. – 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
More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall. – 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
Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting – no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough. – 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
Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt. – 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
We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform. – 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