Joe Garcia

“What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.”

“As much as people want to call me a bomb-thrower, look at my record.”

“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.'”

“I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.”

“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 poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.”

“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.”

“My grandfather died under house arrest.”

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

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

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

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

“The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.”

“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.'”

“Family is more important than ideology.”

“The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.”

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