Fidel Castro — "Socialism or death! This is our slogan, because we believe in socialism."

"United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope."

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

"I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to …"

"I am not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that I will do is to make sure that the sacrifices of so many compatriots should not be in vain, whatever the future may hol…"

"I find it amusing that the United States considers itself the defender of democracy when it has supported so many dictatorships."