Jack Nicholson Quotes

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer.

I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

Dr. Kissinger is a man you can talk to.

My own appraisal of him as a man is somewhat mixed. The one fact we can be sure of is that he has those indefinable qualities which make him a leader of men. Whatever we may think of him he is going to be a great factor in the development of Cuba and very possibly Latin American affairs generally. He seems to be sincere, he is either incredibly naïve about Communism or under Communist discipline—my guess is the former and as I have already implied, his ideas as to how to run a government or an economy are less developed than those of almost any world figure I have met in fifty countries. But because he has the power to lead to which I have referred we have no choice but at least to try to orient him in the right direction.

I admire Obama.

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

Sonia Gandhi is great. She is adorable.

Hillary Clinton is very strong and very smart.

[John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

For the last 60 years, dictator Fidel Castro was America's most persistent adversary. Although Castro formally handed off to his brother, Raul, eight years ago, the communist leader was a symbolic force in Cuba and around the world.

I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

I have great respect for Angela Merkel, even if we have a lot of differences.

I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God."