I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

I hope Mr. Obama has success.

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.