"President Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba is a decision to recognize reality. For 50 years, the United States has pursued a policy that has failed. The embargo hurt the Cuban people it claimed to help and bolstered the regime that it intended to undermine. The effort to isolate Cuba has been increasingly isolating the United States both in the hemisphere and across the world. And as the president concluded, 'I do not believe we can keep doing the same thing for over five decades and expect a different result.' To believe that would be, as Albert Einstein taught us, the very definition of insanity."
 -- Katrina vanden Heuvel