My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my local trade union that projected me my political life. And if I fail, when I go back to my hometown, it's going to take another century for another worker, another member of the working class to reach the presidency, because people are going to say that the workers do not have the competency to run a country.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe