Castro Quotes

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One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

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

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world.

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.

Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro, and that's why he will never die.

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Fidel Castro was a born rebel.

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen?

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.

Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!