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

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

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.

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

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.