Castro Quotes

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

— Andy Garcia

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.

— Tom Gjelten

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

— Jack Nicholson

Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.

— Helen Caldicott

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

— Oliver Stone

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

— Fidel Castro

I like Fidel Castro and his beard.

— Bob Dylan

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

— Harvey Milk

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

— Bernie Sanders

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

— Barbara Walters

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God."

— Louis Farrakhan

“The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn’t rationed.”

— Nelson DeMille

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

— Steven Soderbergh

Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a…

— Bill Maher

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

— Richard M. Nixon

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

— Colin Powell

More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know…

— Gloria Estefan

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal…

— Andy Garcia

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to…

— Louis Farrakhan

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

— Dorothy Day

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his…

— Ronald Reagan

Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro,…

— Louis Farrakhan

Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done so yet because his…

— Mark Falcoff

Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

— Brendan I. Koerner

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating…

— Mitt Romney

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter…

— Tom Wolfe

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was…

— Che Guevara

Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the…

— Cal Thomas

How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape,…

— Thomas Sowell

[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education…

— Gloria Estefan

I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution.…

— Rafael Cruz

There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as…

— Noam Chomsky

The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North…

— Don Feder

“There is now a museum near Havana, commemorating the “Campaña Nacional de Alphabetization en Cuba” in La Ciudad Libertad or the “City…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you…

— Rush Limbaugh

The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war.…

— Howard Zinn

John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets…

— Louis Farrakhan

If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early…

— Noam Chomsky