"I ask your forgiveness for having fallen. To prevent speculation, I observe I have a fracture in the knee and maybe the arm too, I'm not sure."

"I'll be 90 years old soon. Soon I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain as proof that on this planet, if one works with fervor …"

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but in power to realize a program."

"Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty."

"The United States has a law that says if you are Cuban and you step on U.S. soil, you are immediately a U.S. citizen. And then they complain about illegal immigration."