Quotes and Sayings About Cuba
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In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
-- Amy Tan -
She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.
-- Andy Garcia -
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
-- Andy Garcia -
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
-- Antonio Carlos Jobim -
Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.
-- Barbara Walters -
The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God.
-- Benny Hinn -
Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
-- Bob Kerrey -
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
-- Brit Marling -
After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
-- Chick Corea -
When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
-- Compay Segundo -
I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
-- Daisy Fuentes -
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.
-- David Horowitz -
In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.
-- David Limbaugh -
Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.
-- Eleanor Clift -
A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.
-- Elie Abel -
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
-- Fidel Castro -
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
-- Fidel Castro -
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
-- Fidel Castro -
I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.
-- Fidel Castro -
In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
-- Harold Pinter -
Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.
-- Helen Caldicott -
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.
-- Hugo Chavez -
May be my favorite of my Cuba dispatches.....
-- Jeff Greenwald -
My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
-- Jencarlos Canela -
I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.
-- Lincoln Diaz-Balart -
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
