"Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war."

"None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example."

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

"Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union."

"At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran."

"I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States."

"On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted."

"I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on."

"The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises."

"It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense."

"...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing."

"I am a just man."

"Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!"

"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."

"Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba."

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

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

"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."

"I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail."

"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief."

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

"Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world."

"We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved."

"It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible."