Fidel Castro

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

How can we help President Obama?

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.