Cuba Quotes - Page 12

• I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

  David Bowie

  People, Important, Musician

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.44, Melville House

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• The U.S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, Needs, Approval

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• You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.

  David Letterman

  Home, Men, Years

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

  David Letterman

  Running, Father, Texas

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• 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

  Government, Long, Alive

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

  Mark Falcoff

  Islands, Government, Color

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

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• 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

  Brother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, White, Racist

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Revolutionary, Dictatorship

  "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.

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• That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.

  Martin Sorrell

  Thinking, Central Park, People

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

  Chevy Chase

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• If you look at Cuba what's the benefit in being in Cuba? Really? It's almost like being in prison. You can't think. You can't have your own opinions. You have no opportunity. You just gotta live life the way you were born into it.

  Pitbull

  Live Life, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Daughter, Song

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• I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Racism, Trying

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• My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

  Assata Shakur

  Vision, Different, Green

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• A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

  Assata Shakur

  Culture, Way, Gray

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• The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.

  Dorothy Day

  Struggle, Long, Revolution

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• My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Citizens, Fundamentals

  FaceBook post by Marco Rubio from Sep 21, 2015

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• I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Opportunity

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Reason, Lost, Mankind

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

  Dorothy Day

  Might, Revolution, Grew

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• Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Order, People, House

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, People, Fleeing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

  Jay Leno

  Latin, Mean, America

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