Cuba Quotes

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

The only way a revolution can triumph is through the force of arms.

I don’t deny that Cuba poverty exists, but at least the peasants there have an illusion of progress, whereas the Bolivian lives without hope.

In terms of the nature of the continuation of the Cold War, which has gone on so long between Cuba and the United States, I applaud the president for aggressively trying to end it and I hope we will have not only full diplomatic relations, but that the trade embargo will end.

I am not a communist. I do not agree with communism.

I want Cuba ... I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason -- for the planting and spreading of slavery

That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

We are running out of enemies. We are down to Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung.

The Communists were the only ones who helped us at the beginning of our struggle.

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.

People in Cuba are victims.

This is the history of failure.

... proceed northward by interior channels, devastating, laying waste, sacking and burning whatever settlements, plantations and towns there may be ... and ... taking possession of the entire country, for ... these parts hold no hostile troops able to resist those under your command.

Where a government has come to power through some sort of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not been exhausted.

I helped make Mexico...safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank …. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

History will absolve me.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

In July of 2006, I visited the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was important for me to see Guantanamo firsthand and to meet the military personnel who are doing such a great job for our country.

Revolutionary death is the reality and victory the dream.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

We will bring imperialism to its knees.

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.