I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
FIDEL CASTRO A revolution is not a bed of roses.
FIDEL CASTRO NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in...
FIDEL CASTRO I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that...
FIDEL CASTRO If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
FIDEL CASTRO There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every C...
FIDEL CASTRO During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of inte...
FIDEL CASTRO Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRO I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
FIDEL CASTRO There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned...
FIDEL CASTRO There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Th...
FIDEL CASTRO I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTRO I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, h...
FIDEL CASTRO You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the ex...
FIDEL CASTRO North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also human...
FIDEL CASTRO No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
FIDEL CASTRO Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRO I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
FIDEL CASTRO The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...
FIDEL CASTRO A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
FIDEL CASTRO I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...
FIDEL CASTRO All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO 'No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
FIDEL CASTRO Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that cl...
FIDEL CASTRO The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other ...
FIDEL CASTRO The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and t...
FIDEL CASTRO I began revolution with 82 men. If I had To do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. I...
FIDEL CASTRO I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in t...
FIDEL CASTRO When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church i...
FIDEL CASTRO Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTRO Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... Yo...
FIDEL CASTRO I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTRO Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used ...
FIDEL CASTRO Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no mat...
FIDEL CASTRO Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an acco...
FIDEL CASTRO The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to who...
FIDEL CASTRO Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system h...
FIDEL CASTRO The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civiliz...
FIDEL CASTRO A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration tha...
FIDEL CASTRO My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the...
FIDEL CASTRO The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...
FIDEL CASTRO Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observe...
FIDEL CASTRO I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and ...
FIDEL CASTRO On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he...
FIDEL CASTRO I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of ...
FIDEL CASTRO The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and we...
FIDEL CASTRO Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was...
FIDEL CASTRO I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
FIDEL CASTRO Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now ...
FIDEL CASTRO The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
FIDEL CASTRO The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circu...
FIDEL CASTRO They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and ...
FIDEL CASTRO Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
FIDEL CASTRO I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it al...
FIDEL CASTRO Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and s...
FIDEL CASTRO It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the...
FIDEL CASTRO We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
FIDEL CASTRO Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast ener...
FIDEL CASTRO When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had du...
FIDEL CASTRO Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
FIDEL CASTRO Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Sovie...
FIDEL CASTRO The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or de...
FIDEL CASTRO Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of ...
FIDEL CASTRO England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middl...
FIDEL CASTRO If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts a...
FIDEL CASTRO A revolution is a struggle between the past and the future.
FIDEL CASTRO I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTRO Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United St...
FIDEL CASTRO It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the gran...
FIDEL CASTRO The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other ...
FIDEL CASTRO Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this en...
FIDEL CASTRO Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was pr...
FIDEL CASTRO It (the plan) is a repugnant and immoral maneuver, a rude reply to the pope's proposals... an insult...
FIDEL CASTRO As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethical...
FIDEL CASTRO We are the rebels of the West, ... And Malaysia is the rebel of the East.
FIDEL CASTRO History will absolve me
FIDEL CASTRO North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought ...
FIDEL CASTRO The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
FIDEL CASTRO I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but bec...
FIDEL CASTRO Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
FIDEL CASTRO The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the surviva...
FIDEL CASTRO I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
FIDEL CASTRO The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that c...
FIDEL CASTRO No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about o...
FIDEL CASTRO In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
FIDEL CASTRO The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us ...
FIDEL CASTRO As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthie...
FIDEL CASTRO The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO There is no country in the world where the empire's mercenaries enjoy the privileges they do in Cuba...
FIDEL CASTRO Whatever we get will be used there for the martyrs of Katrina, be it one million (dollars), two, thr...
FIDEL CASTRO This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, us...
FIDEL CASTRO [He charged that other INS documents make reference to efforts to] Show Fidel, ... we gave child bac...
FIDEL CASTRO Thank you for coming to reinforce us in the difficult struggle that we are undergoing today, to pres...
FIDEL CASTRO Sometimes I have the impression that our debates are unreal. It's as though the United States didn't...
FIDEL CASTRO If it takes months, so be it, they will wait it out,
FIDEL CASTRO It would be a crime not to go to the appeal, ... The passports are ready and of course the airplane ...
FIDEL CASTRO Humanity will preserve an emotional memory of the tireless work of His Holiness John Paul II in favo...
FIDEL CASTRO The plane will be ready to leave Tuesday if the visas are granted,
FIDEL CASTRO For every word you have said -- even those I might disagree with -- on behalf of all the Cuban peopl...
FIDEL CASTRO put an end to the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people that is taking place while the wor...
FIDEL CASTRO They were planning a parallel summit.
FIDEL CASTRO If Mohammed can't go to the mountain, the mountain will go to Mohammed,
FIDEL CASTRO You cannot do this without the authorization of the father, ... I sincerely think that this boy is a...
FIDEL CASTRO I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in t...
FIDEL CASTRO Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common se...
FIDEL CASTRO I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortabl...
FIDEL CASTRO Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wa...
FIDEL CASTRO Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that ...
FIDEL CASTRO The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
FIDEL CASTRO Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
FIDEL CASTRO When I reached the concrete area, about 15 or 20 meters from the first row of chairs, I did not real...
FIDEL CASTRO Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRO If all roads lead to Rome, we can only wish for thousands of roads to lead to Revolutionary Rome!
FIDEL CASTRO Cuba stands by Pakistan in this hour of trial,
FIDEL CASTRO The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back...
FIDEL CASTRO We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bi...
FIDEL CASTRO They always advertise it as mixed with something else.
FIDEL CASTRO We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and h...
FIDEL CASTRO We are going to discuss, let's get an agreement, and really help each other mutually in cases of dis...
FIDEL CASTRO We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... Thi...
FIDEL CASTRO There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...
FIDEL CASTRO Hugo, nothing can stop you now,
FIDEL CASTRO I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that ...
FIDEL CASTRO hysterical lunatic and loose tyrant.
FIDEL CASTRO In the army of the workers there must be discipline; there must be comradeship, there must be unity;...
FIDEL CASTRO a bunch of kidnappers.
FIDEL CASTRO [Meanwhile, the memory of U.S. presidential complicity in assassination plots is very nearly dead. T...
FIDEL CASTRO I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
FIDEL CASTRO How can we help President Obama?
FIDEL CASTRO Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that ...
FIDEL CASTRO At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied th...
FIDEL CASTRO we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revo...
FIDEL CASTRO At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convin...
FIDEL CASTRO Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expre...
FIDEL CASTRO Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on princ...
FIDEL CASTRO What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its o...
FIDEL CASTRO I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members ...
FIDEL CASTRO Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system tha...
FIDEL CASTRO It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes ...
FIDEL CASTRO The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of b...
FIDEL CASTRO Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of c...
FIDEL CASTRO The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least re...
FIDEL CASTRO The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
FIDEL CASTRO I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and co...
FIDEL CASTRO No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
FIDEL CASTRO Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
FIDEL CASTRO I appeal to him to just come out voluntarily in terms of his status as an ex-senator and a colonel o...
FIDEL RAMOS It has stabilized a little better than the situation of July 8 and July 25, let's put it that way,
FIDEL RAMOS constitutional right to express their views.
FIDEL RAMOS We have been very consistent in our position that the labor issues be better addressed by the Intern...
FIDEL RAMOS The latest tests not only escalate the nuclear race in South Asia but more importantly divert scare ...
FIDEL RAMOS The sacrifice may be, working double time giving up a part of your elected term of office and focus...
FIDEL RAMOS We knew their goalkeeper wasn't very good in the air, so that's where we put the shots and they went...
FIDEL SANCHEZ We've got a lot of young talent.
FIDEL VASQUEZ He's taken on a more defensive-minded game.
FIDEL VASQUEZ I knew we had something, but I didn't know we'd be this good. I thought it would be next year. I'm v...
FIDEL VASQUEZ We were really passing the ball. They were playing the middle, so we went to the outside and crossed...
FIDEL SANCHEZ It is a heartbreaking loss; to give them an easy goal like that after a hard-fought game, it is toug...
FIDEL SANCHEZ The prospect of no election is to me, in my humble opinion a national disaster waiting to happen, bu...
FIDEL RAMOS The sacrifice may be, working double time giving up a part of your elected
term of office and ...
FIDEL RAMOS Our leaders must not only make sure that our future is enhanced but also that those who plundered th...
FIDEL RAMOS These nuclear tests are serious blows to regional security and to the global non-proliferation regim...
FIDEL RAMOS This is a manifestation that democracy in our country is very much alive, and protected by both gove...
FIDEL RAMOS But it's not that nice and easy and smooth. Everybody, specially the elected officials, has to work ...
FIDEL RAMOS There were a couple of aftershocks this morning but there was no panic.
FIDEL MUTEBA I have heard of at least one death and many injuries, but we need to check more (in poor neighborhoo...
FIDEL MUTEBA A child died when the house he was in collapsed during the earthquake. Several other people have bro...
FIDEL MUTEBA He was suffering too much, so the Lord took him.
FIDEL ESTRADA He is taking very aggressive treatments and we have to wait and see how he responds. He is not defea...
FIDEL ESTRADA I bowled in too many bad areas and bowled too many four balls but I was pleased to get five wickets.
FIDEL EDWARDS I think the pitch is getting better for batting, it's a bit two paced and balls are coming off the b...
FIDEL EDWARDS It could have been better, I bowled balls in bad areas, I thought I could bowl better and more consi...
FIDEL EDWARDS I opened bowling with him for Barbados this year and it has been going good so far.
FIDEL EDWARDS My rhythm is ok, the areas I have been bowling is ok but not as consistent as I would like it.
FIDEL EDWARDS You can't ask for anything better than that. After coming off a fairly long break, I wanted to get e...
FIDEL EDWARDS Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually...
JULIAN CASTRO What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities b...
JULIAN CASTRO I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold W...
JULIAN CASTRO In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don...
JULIAN CASTRO First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran f...
JULIAN CASTRO I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni...
JULIAN CASTRO It's been my desire from the beginning to bring a championship-caliber tournament to Ocala.
BERNADETTE CASTRO [John Norbeck, the state parks regional director, said the adjacent picnic shelter and playground al...
BERNADETTE CASTRO New York's park visitors enjoy seeing the tremendous variety of animals that call our State Parks ho...
BERNADETTE CASTRO And we will have 1,200 homes in our backyard that can drive their golf carts in to shop,
BERNADETTE CASTRO But now our future is real estate, ... And one thing my father taught me was that you don't get into...
BERNADETTE CASTRO Governor Pataki continues to be an outstanding steward of our public lands by preserving and expandi...
BERNADETTE CASTRO I am absolutely thrilled, ... It is magnificent.
BERNADETTE CASTRO The pool is over 50 years old and it has absolutely gotten to the point that we need to start over.
BERNADETTE CASTRO These two days of hearings have been invaluable. I think every member of the committee learned somet...
BERNADETTE CASTRO Partnership is the key word here. This is not about the Castro family selling out and moving along. ...
BERNADETTE CASTRO They came out to prove to the world they belong in pro baseball.
BILL CASTRO He would have made us a lot better.
BILL CASTRO