Cuba Quotes - Page 6

• I think it`s going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Political, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Stars, Smart, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

  Rafael Cruz

  Students, Communism

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people.

  Che Guevara

  Government, People, Would Be

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.

  Roberto Duran

  Wise, Fighter, Promotion

  "Even at 55, Roberto Duran packs a wallop". ESPN Interview, www.espn.com. September 27, 2006.

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• 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

  Trying, Succeed, Spirit

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• Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying "Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba."

  Robert McNamara

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.

  Luis Tiant

  Baseball, Player, Years

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• I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.

  Albert G. Brown

  War, Two, Mexican

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• I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Madrid, Jersey, Spain

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

  Brit Marling

  Made, Happens, Unafraid

  "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful" by Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.

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• In Cuba, we have a democracy that represents the humble, the dispossessed, those who make up the vast majority of the population. It is for those who carry the main weight of society's load in matters of the production of goods and services. These are not the ones that live from financial speculation.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Humble, Democracy, Population

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world. We also know the positive experiences of socialism not only in our geographic environment but also like what we are witnessing in China.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Latin, America, Positive Experiences

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Political, President, Roles

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Thinking, Development

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Take Cuba. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it too. But the government won't allow it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Long, Majority

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

  Felipe Perez Roque

  Sadness, Loss, Profound

  "World mourns attack victims", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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• In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.

  Margarita Engle

  Latin, Struggle, Inspiration

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• I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

  Amy Tan

  Florida, Dry, Knows

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• Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Iran

  "Obama on Iran: What's McCain afraid of?". www.politico.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.

  Wayne Smith

  Moon, Politics, Administration

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• 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

  Men, Political, Maps

  "Castro in quotes", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2008.

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• A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Government, Opposites

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• Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including three young black men in 2003. What is needed in Cuba is a concert in favor of democracy, civil liberties for the people, the freedom of political prisoners, free elections and the expulsion of dictatorial power.

  Zoe Valdes

  Men, Thinking, Squad

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• 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

  Children, May, Miami

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