Cuba Quotes · Page 12

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

— Pitbull

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

— Gerald Horne

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men…

— Tom Gjelten

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government…

— Assata Shakur

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him…

— Louis Farrakhan

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making…

— Ben Rhodes

[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.

— David Muir

What I do see is Cuban people that are just - want to see change. They are vibrant. They are trying to…

— Amy Klobuchar

Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change,…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun…

— José Martí

I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Here is the thing people do not understand. And I have said this repeatedly. I am not against changes in U.S. policy…

— Marco Rubio

In July of 2006, I visited the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was important for me to see Guantanamo…

— Dick Durbin

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial…

— Sarah Vowell

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

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place…

— Smedley Butler

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about…

— Rachael Price

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

— Rudy Giuliani

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that…

— John Gimlette

I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean's Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from…

— Diamond Dallas Page

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

— John Layfield

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and…

— Eleanor Clift

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie…

— Conan O'Brien

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people…

— Fernando Perez

“In 1928, Celulosa Cubana, S.A., founded by sugar tycoon Manuel Rionda, began making bagasse paper in Tuinucu, Cuba.”

— Mark Kurlansky

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

— Noam Chomsky

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

— Jeb Bush

“I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the…

— Cristina García

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

— Joy-Ann Reid

The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.

— Ben Rhodes

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's…

— John Gimlette

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

— Stephen Kinzer

I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way…

— Jeffrey Goldberg

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to…

— Barack Obama

If the two economies can figure out how to waltz... I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I…

— John Hickenlooper

The United States must stand with the Cuban people who are displaying courage by protesting the communist regime that has destroyed their…

— Nicole Malliotakis