The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

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.

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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.

So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization?

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.