"Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power."
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"A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country."
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"Today, the entire country is an immense University."
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"If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains."
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"I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep."
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"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief."
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"I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young."
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"I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly."
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"The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars."
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"Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!"
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"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case."
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"I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews."
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"I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man."
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