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.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

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.

Ideas do not need weapons.

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

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.