Cuba Quote by Ben Rhodes

For more than fifty years, Americans and Cubans have been isolated from one another even though Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida.

— Ben Rhodes

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba…

— Fidel Castro

“Florida was like a pathetic, flaccid cock unable to work it up. Meanwhile, Cuba sat waiting like a big, wet pussy, not even a…

— Arthur Graham

Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a…

— Barack Obama

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like…

— Henry Louis Gates

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

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

I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of…

— Thomas Jefferson

For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of isolating and pressuring Cuba. While the policy was rooted in the context…

— Ben Rhodes

Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.

— Jose Contreras

Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is…

— Luis Fortuno

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

— Fidel Castro