Castro Quote by Scott Simon

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

— Tom Gjelten

Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after he was…

— Tom Gjelten

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

— Louis Farrakhan

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.

— Tom Gjelten

The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and…

— Barbara Walters

Fidel Castro was a born rebel.

— Tom Gjelten

“Logically, then, whatever Fidel Castro did in opposition to American policy was wrong, regardless of his intentions and strategy towards his own people. All…

— Keith Bolender

Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of…

— Cal Thomas

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his…

— Bob Menendez

“Though Fidel came to boast of his Marxism-Leninism, he himself never joined the Communist Party. As the revolution careened along, the Communists may even…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

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

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

— Andy Garcia