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.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.