I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

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

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.