The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

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.

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

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.