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

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

"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."

"Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries."

"I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country."

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

"Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient."

"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."

"Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody."

"If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian."

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

"Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist."

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

"Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba."

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

"Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life."

"For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity."

"Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage."

"No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place."

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

"Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle."

"Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis."

"General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible."

"Today, the entire country is an immense University."