Cuba Quotes

This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. (Fidel Castro)
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. View quote
Rachel Kushner
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. View quote
Andrei Gromyko
Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm? View quote
Gloria Estefan
I'm not a drinker - my body will not tolerate spirits. I had two Martinis on New Year's Eve and I tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba. View quote
Woody Allen
The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised. View quote
Tariq Ali
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. (William McKinley)
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God. View quote
Benny Hinn
In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true. View quote
Harold Pinter
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. View quote
Federico García Lorca
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba. View quote
Malcolm X
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba. View quote
Mitt Romney
Cuba hopes that her children will see a better future, and that victory will not have to be won at the cost of millions of human lives destroyed by the atomic bomb. View quote
Che Guevara
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy. View quote
Hugo Chávez
You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened. (Rachel Kushner)
The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure. View quote
Robert Zubrin
The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it. View quote
Robert Zubrin
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba. View quote
Amin Maalouf