The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

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

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

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.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.