"The greatest satisfaction of a revolutionary is to feel that he is useful to his people."

"United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope."

"I apologize if I have offended anyone with my words, but I will not apologize for my ideas."

"I ask your forgiveness for having fallen. To prevent speculation, I observe I have a fracture in the knee and maybe the arm too, I'm not sure."

"I am not a dictator. I am a servant of the people."