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"Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical."
"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."
"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
"The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history."
"How can we help President Obama?"
"Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism."
"If someone is responsible, it's me."
"The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet."
"Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses."
"I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians."
"I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason."
"There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."
"Repetition is a revolutionary virtue."
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?"
"The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government."
"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."
"Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived."
"In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty."
"I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim."
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."