Around the world Quote by Ben Rhodes

I think it`s going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

— Joy-Ann Reid

For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of isolating and pressuring Cuba. While the policy was rooted in the context…

— Ben Rhodes

Cuba is exporting communism throughout the hemisphere and throughout the world, and has been doing it for decades - and that's something that should…

— Francis X. Suarez

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

— Ben Rhodes

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the…

— Barack Obama

“The State Department Policy Planning Council soon expanded on these concerns: “the primary danger we face in Castro,” it concluded, is “in the impact…

— Keith Bolender

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to…

— Robert Dallek

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time…

— Noam Chomsky

The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have…

— Nikita Khrushchev

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is…

— Marco Rubio

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

— Rand Paul

We must have Cuba; we can't do without Cuba...

— James Buchanan