U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.

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

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

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

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