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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.