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

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

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

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

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

Ideas do not need weapons.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.