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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

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

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.