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Quotes About Fidel

The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.
~ Joe Garcia
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
~ Elliott Abrams
the CIA was training Cuban exiles to land in Cuba and launch a guerrilla war against the new government of Fidel Castro.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
I would love to have visited Cuba while Fidel Castro was alive.
~ Edith Bowman
I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
~ Fidel Castro
I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.
~ John Gimlette
Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.
~ Andy Garcia
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
~ Fidel Castro
You get out," Foley said, "you're free, they can't deport you?" "Fidel won't take us back." "You glad you came to America?" "I'm grateful for the ways they are to improve myself since I come to La Yuma. I respect how justice wears a blindfold, like a fucking hostage.
~ Elmore Leonard
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
~ Artie Lange
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
~ Fidel Castro
Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out.
~ Assata Shakur
US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.
~ Rachael Price
Hice la amarga reflexión de que quedábamos 13. Uno más que los que tuvo Fidel tras el desembarco del 'Granma'... Pero no era el mismo jefe." --Ernesto Guevara
~ Jon Lee Anderson
Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.
~ Bob Menendez
I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.
~ Gloria Estefan
As the enthusiasm for the Soviet model waned, the idealistic and dissenting energies of intellectuals and the young embraced other cult figures and myths of salvation and purification: Mao, Fidel, Che, and even Pol Pot.
~ Azar Gat
I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
~ Fidel Castro
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
~ Alma Guillermoprieto
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
~ Fidel Castro
When I was 14, in Cuba, I met Fidel Castro with my dad, and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level, I met Justin Timberlake!
~ Dylan Penn
It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
~ Rachel Kushner
As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his country invaded in retaliation, just to make Lyndon Johnson President.
~ Lamar Waldron