Beats Quote by William Cohen

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military…

— Ronald Reagan

“By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eisenhower’s test ban had failed, and the United States and the Soviet Union had both returned…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis is that, in a world with nuclear weapons, a classic military victory is an illusion.…

— Michael Dobbs

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

— Carlos Fuentes

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

— Lee Harvey Oswald

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

— Assata Shakur

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

— Wim Wenders

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear…

— Ronald Kessler

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

— Noam Chomsky

May be my favorite of my Cuba dispatches.....

— Jeff Greenwald

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis