Patrick Leahy actually said...

"If we did not have our embargo, you would have so many American companies down there, fighting for the chance to do this and very openly doing it, it would have accomplished a lot more than this progr..."

"We should remember that while we debate what USAID is doing in Cuba, U.S. citizen Alan Gross remains in solitary confinement in his fifth year of captivity."

"I would like to see free markets in Cuba. I would like to see an openness there. I would like to see an end to the repression of people who speak up for their rights in Cuba."

"I completely agree with your concept that we have got to make it possible for the people in the area to do things, to be able to help themselves."