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I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

How can we help President Obama?

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.