We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - 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.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

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

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.