Cuba Quotes

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?

We have seen in recent years a large increase in the number of people coming in and cases of people going back, living in Cuba, but still receiving American benefits. That cannot be justified.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.

I'm truly blessed, because many of my friends come to Cuba. They like it here-they can relax and not worry about drive-by shootings or getting raped.

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

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

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

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.

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.

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!

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.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much alive, that fight is very much alive.

Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.

Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a pillow.