Mel Martinez Quotes

• We need a new Latin American policy that is bold – different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Focus, Need

• Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in State, Needs, Million

• Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba – not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Focus, Support, Within

• It’s shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Education, Future

  Tags in Generation

• It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Help, Price

• In America, all things are possible.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in America

  Tags in Possible

• I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Keep, Vote

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

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Come, Another

• From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Government, Freedom

• Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation’s next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales’ life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Judge, Said

• 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.

  Mel Martinez

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Live, Mind

Mel Martinez (11)

Birth:	23rd October, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

Related Authors

• Denzil Douglas
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Lee Hsien Loong
• Marc Estrin
• Harold Stassen
• Henry Addington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Kenneth Baker
• Alvaro Uribe
• Frank Jordan

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 14th May

Births

• 1936 - Richard John Neuhaus
• 1922 - Agha Hasan Abedi
• 1727 - Thomas Gainsborough
• 1917 - Lou Harrison
• 1907 - Ayub Khan

Deaths

• 1887 - Lysander Spooner
• 2006 - Stanley Kunitz
• 1931 - David Belasco
• 2003 - Robert Stack
• 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas