Political Quotes

“earlier today, we were privileged to have had the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Miami, Agustin Roman, deliver the opening invocation. In addition to being a model human being and a great role model for our south Florida community, Bishop Roman is one of the many victims of the Castro regime. You see, the bishop, who is a native of Cuba, was expelled from his own country in 1961 after armed militia men entered his church and at gunpoint led Bishop Roman and 132 other priests out of the country. Since then, the bishop has made it his personal mission to diffuse God's word around the world and to bring liberty and democracy to Cuba. Of Course, Bishop Roman was not the first nor the last victim of the tyrant who has ruled Cuba for 36 years. As we saw in this summer's rafter exodus, millions of Cubans still linger in the misery and oppression which Fidel Castro and his band of goons have imposed on the island. Most of these Cubans have fled the island this summer and risked their lives in hopes of reaching the shores of freedom, and they remain today detained like common criminals behind the barbed wire of their Guantanamo Base refugee camps. This policy by the Clinton administration has been a very unfortunate shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba, which previously gave the oppressed Cuban people the opportunity to begin a new and productive life in the United States, and at the onset of this policy the President promised tougher sanctions against Castro.”