Today, the entire country is an immense University.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

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

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.