Statesman Quotes

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

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

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

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

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

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

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

How can we help President Obama?

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!