I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

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

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

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

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