Quotes About 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!

I don't think Castro can hold out much longer.

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.

Fidel Castro's opinion about Reagan offered right before the election: "We sometimes have the feeling that we are living in the time preceding the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany." Libya's Kaddafi was not to be left out of the parade, saying, "Reagan is Hitler number 2!" (This is admittedly confusing, since most radical Arab leaders like Hitler.)

The best part appearing in 'Jersey Girl' was meeting my idol Jennifer Lopez.

Also alleged to have been involved in assassination attempts on Castro is Dr. John P Nichols, the administrator in the Cabazon/Wackenhut venture which Danny Casolaro investigated. Edwin Wilson is said to have been a "junior officer" in the attempts to assassinate Castro and his supporters.

Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn't rationed.

I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual for the common good of the collective. It is a kind of enslavement that degrades the human spirit and makes us poorer over time.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

Fidel Castro disclosed that he was reading Churchill's World War II memoirs. "If Churchill hadn't done what he did to defeat the Nazis, you wouldn't be here, none of us would be here," he told a crowd that had gathered to see the new Cuban leader when he visited a Havana bookstore. "What is more, we have to take a special interest in him because he, too, led a little island against a great enemy." Another surprising fan

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Here in Florida, we know plenty about the Castro brothers, and we hear stories of their ruthless and violent rule far too often. It is shameful that we would grant them any shred of legitimacy.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

La petulancia con la que exhibe la vastedad de su ignorancia es compensada por su simpatía y calor humano, y hacen fácil ignorar su intento poco exitoso de emular a Fidel Castro y Henry Kissinger»,