José E. Serrano

We can't do that anymore.

Our country gets criticized a lot. At times, we do some of it ourselves. But when we see people like you... that is America at its best.

If America can begin to have a different relationship with Cuba, it will change what has been a tool, a weapon that has been used against us by other countries in Latin America.

This is going to be a two-sided conversation because there are claims on both sides.

Do you think that our negotiations now with Cuba will have a positive, negative, or non-effect on Central America?

we do better when we invade people with blue jeans and sneakers and ideas and trade than when we try to isolate them.

It has been a failure for the Cuban people and for our country, and it is time to move ahead.

in negotiating with Cuba, it is going to have to be a game of give-and-take because, yes, we have claims on the Cuban Government.

they supported the President's announcement and they view the policy decision as very welcome.

I hope to see that change come true.

I am sure Cubans will want the return, if that is the proper word, of people who have for years been known to be living in this country who took part in acts of violence against Cuba in the early days and in the 1970s in hotels.

You can't negotiate if you don't have relations. You first have to establish the relations, and then you can negotiate on both sides.

And I just want to congratulate you because I have spent 25 years in Congress saying it is a wasted philosophy and policy and it serves nothing.

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