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.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

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.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

How can we help President Obama?

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.