We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I have never considered myself an economist.