"The United States has more than enough power to destroy us, but it cannot make us surrender."

"The greatest glory of the revolution is to have made it possible for any Cuban to feel the owner of his own destiny."

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that gave me a sense of social justice and the ideas that came from the figure of Jesus Christ."

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

"I have never seen a single dollar bill in my life. I have never had a bank account. I have never had a private property."