American - Politician | January 1, 1954 -
Ultimately, the NRA has maybe five million members. We are a nation of 320 million-plus, and it's time we call out those who stand on the wrong side of history and spout the same old NRA talking points.
Bob Menendez
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I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.
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My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.
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I was the first in my family to go to college.
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The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.
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No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.
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My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.
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I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
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There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.
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Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.
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