The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation.

The Cuban regime's hurling of angry and often violent groups against pro-democratic dissidents is particularly disgusting.

But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.

The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people.

The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen.

Cuba's future will be determined by Cubans. Our role is to support those working for democratic change.

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.