American Quote by Elliott Abrams

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

The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the…

— Barack Obama

I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases…

— Noam Chomsky

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they…

— Daniel Ortega

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

The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“The actions of both sides made it easier for that American wrath to be warranted as retribution of the aggrieved. The early months saw…

— Keith Bolender

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

— Lee Harvey Oswald

Cuba is a nation stuck in time, and the regime's complete control of businesses, the press and the Internet has kept the Cuban people…

— Mercedes Schlapp

Cuba has long played an outsized role in the world's imagination.

— Ben Rhodes

Since the end of the Cold War, peace, prosperity, and progress have largely been the order of the day for hundreds of millions of…

— Bob Menendez