"The revolution is a school. The revolution is a university. The revolution is a laboratory."

"We do not believe in bourgeois democracy. We believe in the democracy of the people, of the workers, of the peasants."

"I am not a messiah, but I am a revolutionary."

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

"The greatest glory of the revolution is not what it has done, but what it has yet to do."