No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

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

Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.