When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.

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

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.