Marco Rubio

The only safe way to go to Cuba is to travel there and not really do anything more than, you know, cultural stuff, but really don't talk about politics because that could get you in trouble.

And my other concern is that Alan Gross was on the island for the purpose of fostering access to information.

So we make clear to people who are traveling to Cuba for people-to-people contact, we make clear to them that if they go too far in advocating for democracy or regime change that they could go to jail?

Isn't that something we're concerned about?

I would hope that we would establish a policy that clearly creates a nexus between the trips and our foreign policy toward the island, which is the hope of advancing democracy.

So we've already conceded, the administration has, that there's a price to be paid, that we recognize that these trips are providing hard currency for a repressive regime.

I would just advocate that if indeed we're going to allow people to travel to Cuba, and our hope is that somehow this travel to Cuba will help foster democracy...

But if our policy, ultimately, is to foster democracy, shouldn't these groups be evaluated on the basis of what they would do to foster democracy?

The benefit of having Americans travel to Cuba outweigh the hard currency

There's an open resistance in Cuba now; a resistance which is being oppressed

Political repression has increased

The cost of doing that is that it provides hard currency to the regime

Access to Americans will somehow provide information to the average Cuban

Our policies toward Cuba should be geared toward accomplishing that

Our real goal there is to ultimately have Cuba become a democracy

The first being--and I'm glad to see the first being--effective institutions for democratic governance.

I know my time is about to expire, but concerned, in particular I am personally, about reports of flights between Tehran and Caracas.

And so this administration is committed, and I am personally committed, to continuing to make that issue an extremely high priority for us.

We intend to continue to do so.

We were particularly concerned with the rules under which electoral observation missions would operate.

I think that's critical in terms of--as we move forward in our first objective, which is having democratic institutions that function.

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