Mark Falcoff quotes

“Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done so yet because his brother, who is ideologically opposed to them, is still alive. What he will do when Fidel dies remains to be seen.”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

#Brother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.”
-- Mark Falcoff

#Latin Quotes #Military Quotes #America Quotes

“Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

#Country Quotes #Islands Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

#Government Quotes #Color Quotes #White Quotes

“As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

#Government Quotes #Long Quotes #Cuba Quotes

“Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

#Country Quotes #Latin Quotes #Vietnam Quotes

“I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

#Brother Quotes #President Quotes #May Quotes

“Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.”
-- Mark Falcoff

Source : "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

#Way Quotes #Cuba Quotes #Want Quotes

“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”

“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”

Source : A.J. Cronin (1941). “The Keys of the Kingdom”

“Well, my brother started acting before I did.”

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”