"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that gave me strength in my youth and the ideas that I have now. They are the same ideas, but I have developed them."

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

"The revolution is a light that illuminates the path of humanity."

"The United States has always been a friend of the Cuban people, but not of their government."

"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is an abomination."