Cuba Quotes

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Clearly America businesses are interested in opening up new markets not just in Cuba, but all over the world.

When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.

Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

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.

I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.

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.

The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.

It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is how I would examine our foreign policy towards Cuba.

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.

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

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.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

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