"I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important."

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"I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important."

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"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible."

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