Marco Rubio Quotes

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

Nobody knows this, but my hero is Che Guevara. Why? Because he was magic. He was a hero. Che resisted. He fought against the system.

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

To the developing world, Cuba has been a symbol of sovereignty and resistance and a supporter of revolution - for good or bad. From the Missile Crisis to the anti-apartheid movement, from the Kennedys to Obama era, this small island has put itself at the center of world events.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

There will be no communism.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

The battle is one between the power of chaos, Marxism and destruction…and the powers of order, Christian civilization and the upliftment of the people.

All socialists are either dumb or romantic.

There are only two groups I recognize in Cuba: those who wholly support the revolution and those who are joining the reactionaries.

People joined the Communist Party because it was doing something. It was fighting Fascism.

There is a Communist conspiracy to further or participate in the invasion of Mississippi.

It is not national interests we are upholding — we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.