Cuba Quotes · Page 6

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

— Ronald Reagan

Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees.…

— Marco Rubio

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy…

— Rudy Giuliani

What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get…

— John Gimlette

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

These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing…

— James A. Michener

My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect…

— Yoenis Cespedes

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

— Marco Rubio

The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health…

— Tom Gjelten

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the…

— Marco Rubio

Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia,…

— Michael Parenti

“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But…

— Cristina García

May be my favorite of my Cuba dispatches.....

— Jeff Greenwald

I would love to have visited Cuba while Fidel Castro was alive.

— Edith Bowman

I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human…

— Gloria Estefan

Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.

— Bernie Sanders

I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be…

— Conan O'Brien

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama…

— Louis Farrakhan

The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because…

— Assata Shakur

The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the…

— Pitbull

Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba.

— Robert McNamara

The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces.…

— Augusto Pinochet

The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an…

— John F. Kennedy

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.

— Ben Rhodes