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.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

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

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.