Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an article highlighting the Castro regime's continued abuse of the Cuban people as they organize efforts to create a freer Cuba. The people being held unjustly and abused in Cuban prisons--as well as those being intimidated and repressed outside of prison--need the continued support of America. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2011] America's: Cuba's Repression Escalates (By Mary Anastasia O'Grady) Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson returned home from an attempted hostage-rescue mission to Cuba last month empty- handed and ``still scratching [his] head'' as to why the Castro regime double-crossed him. What is truly baffling is why Mr. Richardson expected anything different from a dictatorship operating in extreme-repression mode. In a Sept. 14 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Mr. Richardson said he had been invited to the island to discuss the release of U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross. Mr. Gross was arrested in December 2009 and is serving a 15-year sentence. Mr. Richardson admitted that he got stiffed by Cuba's ``foreign ministry, which a lot of the people there I know and have been friends'' with.…”