I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

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

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

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

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

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.