Castro Quote by Scott Simon

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

— Barbara Walters

“One crisis, in Cuba, mounted quickly after Fidel Castro staged a successful revolution against a corrupt pro-American dictatorship and triumphantly took power in January…

— James T. Patterson

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

— Ben Rhodes

There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly…

— Mark Falcoff

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

— Barbara Walters

Meeting Fidel Castro was really cool. It's cool because it's Fidel, and it's a world leader, and there's so much history behind the man…

— Aaron McGruder

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very…

— Assata Shakur

I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.'…

— Barbara Walters

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60…

— Ozzie Guillen

“One of Castro’s first acts as Cuba’s Prime Minister was to go on a diplomatic tour that started on April 15, 1959. His first…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

For the last 60 years, dictator Fidel Castro was America's most persistent adversary. Although Castro formally handed off to his brother, Raul, eight years…

— John S. Dickerson