Cuba Quotes

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Doing business with Cuba is good for America.

— Amy Klobuchar

In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.

— Desi Arnaz

In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.

— Yoenis Cespedes

The Cuban people do not live in freedom.

— Mercedes Schlapp

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

— Walter Salles

“A little crazy is good”

— Chris Hilton

In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.

— Raul Castro

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

— Bernie Sanders

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

— Diana Nyad

“In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun.”

— Cristina García

When we escaped from Cuba, all we could carry was our education.

— Alicia Coro

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

— Rafael Palmeiro

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.

— Tom Gjelten

“We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.”

— Cristina García

Cuba is part of who I am. It is my family's homeland.

— Nolan Arenado

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

— Gloria Estefan

When I think of the things that Trump has done, ironically, everything is sort of - we care so much about Cuba…

— Ben Rhodes

In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German…

— Jacob Weisberg

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

The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is…

— Bob Menendez

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

— Alberto Juantorena

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

— Mitt Romney

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

I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped…

— Leon Day

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking…

— Lana Del Rey

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo…

— Stephen Kinzer

To the developing world, Cuba has been a symbol of sovereignty and resistance and a supporter of revolution - for good or…

— Ben Rhodes

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now…

— Compay Segundo

Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest…

— Argus Hamilton

“General Gary Prado Salmón, retired, had been the commander of the unit that had captured Guevara. He confirmed General Vargas’ statement and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

For some reason, we can't go to Cuba, businesses in American can't do business in Cuba. I think that that is stupid.…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Noam Chomsky

“Starting in 1847, workers were imported from China to Cuba, to replace the rebelling black slaves in the sugar fields. It was…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“In 1469, the regions of Aragon (Aragón) and Castile (Castilla) were united by the marriage of Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere.…

— Mariela Castro

That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how…

— Martin Sorrell

“That's because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act…

— Stephanie Elizondo Griest