Political Quotes

“If Castro poses no threat to the United States, I would like the gentleman to place a call to the parents of Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena and Pablo Morales, and four young men, three of whom were United States citizens, one of whom was a United States resident, one was a decorated Vietnam veteran, who were killed by Fidel Castro's air force when they were in international air space. Apparently he poses a threat to some United States citizens. The gentleman is right. The Pope did go to Cuba. Jimmy Carter did go to Cuba. And what happened? The greatest crackdown on dissidents yet after Jimmy Carter's visit and every international human rights organization will tell you, the greatest crackdown in Cuban history since Castro took power after the visit of the Pope, after the visit of Jimmy Carter and after the visit of 500,000 American visitors to the island of Cuba. And as repeatedly articulated by President Bush, one of the pillars of our efforts to eradicate this cancer of global terrorism, and to secure the security and domestic tranquility of our country is to deny, impair, and expose the financial infrastructure which provides a lifeline to these agents of terror, agents like Fidel Castro.”