Ted Poe actually said...

"It seems to me that Cuba trades with everybody in the hemisphere except us."

"It seems to me that the U.S. policy against Cuba, the Castro regime, as articulated by Mr. Claver-Carone, a lot of reasons why the Government of Cuba is not acting appropriately by international stand..."

"It would just seem to me that that doesn't punish the Cubans. It helps the Vietnamese and it punishes the United States."

"I really believe that we should be focusing on humane and humanitarian crises rather than development."