If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

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

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries.