There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

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

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.