Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.