The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

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.

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

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