The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

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.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.