We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

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.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.