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.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

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

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

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

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

Ideas do not need weapons.