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.

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

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.

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

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

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.