“If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.” IfsWantNeedsCountryCertainRightsCitizensNormalRelationCuba Author:Marco Rubio
“In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find a regime that oppresses people and hinders progress, both socially and politically.” PeopleGovernmentGivenRightsProgressProtectHolinessRegimesPopeCubaHinder Author:Marco Rubio
“My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.” GivenRightsCitizensDignityClaimsFundamentalsRegimesPopeCubaCubanCastroFundamental Rights Author:Marco Rubio
“It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.” WayHumansMovingGreaterRightsPolicyHuman RightsAbsurdAbsurdityFree MarketCubaWrong WayCivil Society Author:Wayne Smith
“Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.” PeopleWorldCountryBornRightsBecomingCitizensSpeechMirrorsFundamentalsDemocraticRaisedFreedom Of SpeechCubaVenezuelaMirror ImageDemocratic Rights Author:Maria Conchita Alonso
“Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.” IfsSelfMatterTodayNationsInterestRightsSacrificeDutySlaveRussiaGermanyPensSovietRulersDictatorshipNaziGangSelf InterestCubaSelf SacrificeOutlawNazi GermanySoviet Russia Author:Ayn Rand
“Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.” HumansInterestRightsMembersEthicsHuman RightsMissionsSenateReplacedSyriaCommitteesCubaJoiningSudan Author:Argus Hamilton