We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

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

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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