US Presidency
2016

You had two Cuban Americans in the Republican Party, running against the legacy of a black man who is President, while arguing that they're the best person to beat the Democratic nominee who will either be a woman or a Democratic Socialist. Who would have believed that back in 1959? That's a measure of our progress as a democracy. So here's my message to the Cuban government and the Cuban people: The ideals that are the starting point for every revolution America's revolution, Cuba's revolution, the liberation movements around the world those ideals find their truest expression, I believe, in democracy. Not because American democracy is perfect, but precisely because we're not. And we like every country need the space that democracy gives us to change. It gives individuals the capacity to be catalysts to think in new ways, and to reimagine how our society should be, and to make them better. There's already an evolution taking place inside of Cuba, a generational change.