Political Quotes

“Thank you so much, Mr. Duncan. We are so pleased that we have this dynamic duo of the chairman and the ranking member of Western Hemisphere. You are so right to point out, Mr. Duncan, that there is no freedom of the press in Cuba. That is one of the many freedoms that Cuban people are denied. Now, I yield to my colleague from Florida, Congressman Ron DeSantis, who is a war veteran, but who understands that the war for freedom and democracy takes on many fronts, a member of our House Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. DeSANTIS. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to recognize my colleague from Florida because she is just not only on the House floor fighting for freedom for the Cuban people, with whom she obviously has ancestral relations, she fights for freedom for everybody. Whether it is in Venezuela or Iran, she is there; you can set your clock to it. When I first heard about these concessions, I was really scratching my head. I texted some of my colleagues, and I was like: ``We are not really getting anything for this.'' Sure enough, Raul Castro goes out, talks to the people, and says: ``We are not changing. We are not changing anything.'' They are staying exactly with the values that they have been with from the beginning, which are antagonistic to freedom, antagonistic to everything we hold dear in the United States. {time} 2100 You know, when you look at countries like Cuba, a lot of times you don't even need to get into the nitty-gritty.…”