Cuba Quotes
147 Cuba quotes by 109 unique authors
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Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.
— Unknown Author
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's…
— Fidel Castro
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They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
— Paul Harvey
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about…
— Yoenis Cespedes
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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in…
— Yoenis Cespedes
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during…
— Rafael Cruz
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I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
— Italo Calvino
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When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and…
— Juanes
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The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.
— Rudy Giuliani
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:…
— Noam Chomsky
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Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
— Noam Chomsky
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American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
— Noam Chomsky
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I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
— Diana Nyad
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Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there…
— Elliott Abrams
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Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba -…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My…
— Dominik Garcia-Lorido
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as…
— Yoenis Cespedes
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In…
— Yoenis Cespedes
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My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted…
— Selenis Leyva
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I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana.…
— Andrea Navedo
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Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life -…
— Mel Martinez
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Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening…
— Mel Martinez
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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
— Walter Salles
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I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across…
— John Negroponte
Who Wrote These Cuba Quotes
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