So let us not deny that the Cuban Government is greatly enriched by all these resources, which is why it has been its number one foreign policy objective.

Do you want the committee to believe the Cuban Government has never sponsored any act of terrorism over the last half century?

First of all, there is no election in 2018. It is a selection. There is no election.

I think the Nation needs to know under what conditions we are going to have or not have relationships.

Human rights abuses continue unabated with more than 1,600 cases of arbitrary political arrests this year alone, only 5 months into the year.

Not surprisingly, these numbers climbed dramatically in the ensuing months with more than 450 political arrests in February, more than 600 in March, more than 1,600 political arrests in total during the first 4 months of 2015.

You are taking Cuba off the terrorism list. Well, Joanne Chesimard on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Terrorists list...

the difficulties that the Cuban people face is a result of a command and control economy and political repression inside of Cuba

Is it not true that the State Department considers a foreign government providing sanctuary to a terrorist that has committed a terrorist in another country to be support for international terrorism?

the State Department as an institution which is responsible for conducting our Nation's diplomacy was kept in the dark.

Well, they do not have a barrier. They already have a fiber optic line directly laid by Venezuela into Cuba.

I have a great deal of respect for all of you because it is easier to talk about democracy and human rights outside of a country that represses it.