I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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