In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

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

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

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