Cuba Quotes - Page 9

The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.

Jose Contreras

Country, Government, People

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It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

Michael Moore

Country, Healthcare, Incredibles

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To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George McGovern

Military, War, Failure

1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

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There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

Albert Belle

Kings, Games, Play

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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

Amin Maalouf

Uncles, Moving, Egypt

"A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

NeNe Leakes

Stars, Taken, Fighting

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As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people, not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity.

Barack Obama

Life, People, United States

"Barack Obama and Raúl Castro's handshake captured by cameras" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2015.

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The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Jeb Bush

Freedom, Thinking, Kind

"Jeb Bush says warming ties with Cuba was 'the wrong thing to do", www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2015.

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Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

Marco Rubio

Dream, Father, Journey

GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Ted Cruz

Father, Fighting, Liberty

Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015.

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If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.

Marco Rubio

Country, Rights, Normal

Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.

Marco Rubio

People, Use, Tourists

Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts), and he should be brought before war crimes trials.

Noam Chomsky

New York, War, Long

"On Terrorism". Interview with John Bolender, chomsky.info. January, 2004.

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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

Country, Slavery, Hearing

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Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

Gloria Estefan

Song, Moving, Sea

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I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?

Gloria Estefan

Country, Years, Two Year Olds

"Exito" Online Newspaper, October 1997.

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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, World

Interview with Michael Shank, www.counterpunch.org. February 22, 2007.

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[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.

Gloria Estefan

Dream, Careers, Would Be

"Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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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

Art, Doctrine, Half

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President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

Conan O'Brien

President, Diplomatic Relations, Want

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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia.

G. Edward Griffin

Country, Brother, Government

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Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a pillow.

Bill Maher

White, Nurse, House

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In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.

Yoenis Cespedes

Bicycle

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Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.

Che Guevara

War, Mean, Doubt

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After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

Pete Seeger

Country, East Germany, Air

Source: portside.org

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