Political Quotes

“next Tuesday Capitol Hill will be visited by various organizations that support the repressive regime's agenda which promotes the myth that there is an embargo on food and medicine to Cuba. Mr. Speaker, nothing can be further from the truth. The United States is in fact the leading humanitarian aid donor country to Cuba, more than all of the nations of the world combined. The United States has sent more than $227 million in humanitarian donations to the people of Cuba. The shortages of medicine and food in Cuba is caused by the misguided failed Marxist policy of the dictatorship and not what people incorrectly perceive as U.S. policy and U.S. laws. The regime redirects these supplies to tourist-only hospitals and hotels. U.S. policy, in fact, which a majority of the American people support according to a new survey released just yesterday by the American Enterprise Institute, is not at fault for Cuba's ills. The facts are clear. The embargo that must be lifted is the embargo on freedom and human rights and democracy which Castro imposes on his people.”