Top 100 Cuba's Quotes
#1. I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
Pitbull
#2. I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?
John F. Kerry
#3. What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
Vaclav Havel
#4. Stasi trained "fraternal" intelligence organizations, such as Cuba's DGI.
Anonymous
#5. 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
#6. I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.
Assata Shakur
#7. Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
Maria Conchita Alonso
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.
Pico Iyer
#12. Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
Lech Walesa
#13. 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
#15. It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
Rachel Kushner
#16. There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all into Communists. I was listening to 'Hey, Jude' the other day and I had the urge to move to Cuba, so there might be something to it.
Chris Fabry
#17. In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
Raul Castro
#18. 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
#19. I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.
John Gimlette
#20. Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
William McKinley
#21. To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
Leonard Peikoff
#22. I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
Diana Nyad
#23. the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.
Max Brooks
#24. Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
John F. Kerry
#25. Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,
you have vines and stars in your hair,
Pablo Neruda
#26. Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.
Jose Contreras
#28. 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
#29. I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
Brendan I. Koerner
#30. If I could choose one place to be right now - fuck Copenhagen and Cuba. I'd be at right beside you, wherever you are, smiling.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#31. Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
Alberto Juantorena
#32. What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know?
I had different teachers.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#33. I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.
Andrea Navedo
#34. 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
#35. There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.
Fernando Perez
#36. I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
Lana Del Rey
#37. I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
Fidel Castro
#38. In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.
Erislandy Lara
#39. I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#40. My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
Ted Cruz
#41. The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.
Tom Wolfe
#42. You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
P. J. O'Rourke
#43. By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
P. J. O'Rourke
#44. My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#46. The most honest, ballsy, don't give a shit person I've ever met, and she thought I would love her forever
Chris Hilton
#47. 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
#48. Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.
Barack Obama
#49. Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
Noam Chomsky
#50. No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
Mark McGinty
#51. The woman's march of today have deep roots and shoud be respected. Our country must find unification and not division, with men as well as women of all parties rallying around their cause!" Captain Hank Bracker, author of "The Exciting Story of Cuba.
Hank Bracker
#52. In 1628, French pirates and marauding, escaped slaves plundered Santiago and burned Havana to the ground. Even the Dutch, led by Piet Heyn , sacked the Spanish fleet lying at anchor in Havana harbor. page 83, "The Exciting Story of Cuba
Hank Bracker
#53. In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
William Levy
#55. Florida was like a pathetic, flaccid cock unable to
work it up. Meanwhile, Cuba sat waiting like a big, wet
pussy, not even a hundred miles out.
Arthur Graham
#56. The government of Brazil had publicly proposed brokering a settlement between the United States and Cuba; Raskin, never afraid to speak his mind, suggested that the White House consider the offer. "Oh, no," Bundy said. "It'll take just one detachment and he'll be out of there.
Seymour M. Hersh
#57. Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.
Assata Shakur
#58. 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
#59. When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
Compay Segundo
#60. Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#61. 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
#62. There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.
Rachel Kushner
#63. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.
Herman Melville
#64. I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#65. Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.
Tom Standage
#66. I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
Oona Chaplin
#67. The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.
Rudy Giuliani
#68. By the way, if socialism is so damn hot, why doesn't the pope ask all Mexicans to return home? If capitalism is such a bad thing, why doesn't the pope say to every Cuban living in America, "Get the hell back to Cuba"?
Rush Limbaugh
#69. In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.
Raul Castro
#70. I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
John Negroponte
#71. United States had committed a "number of sins" in prerevolutionary Cuba, including turning the island into "the whorehouse of the U.S.
William M. Leogrande
#72. We left the way one leaves a cherished but impossible love: our hearts heavy with regret but beating with great hope.
Mirta Ojito
#73. The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#74. I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane ... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.
Bikram Choudhury
#76. Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
Fidel Castro
#77. 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
#78. Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.
Linda Bond
#79. The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.
Assata Shakur
#80. 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.
Marco Rubio
#81. In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.
Gore Vidal
#82. By the time the Freedom Flights, to use the US description, came to an end, more than 260,000 Cubans had been airlifted to the United States, every one of them registered by the Swiss before they left Cuba.
Clare O'Dea
#83. US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.
Rachael Price
#84. Cuba is just a slave-prison. Our only crime is brith, but our sentence is life behind barbed wire and prison bars.
Jaxy Mono
#85. 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
#86. One cat just leads to another.
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.
Tony Oliva
#88. The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.
Craig Ferguson
#89. I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.
Kelly J. Cogswell
#90. They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
Paul Harvey
#91. I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.
Carlos Mencia
#92. Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
Yoenis Cespedes
#93. When fate and love come into conflict, the former must always win; for love will fade if it rests upon indignity or abdication.
Jorge G. Castaneda
#94. I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#95. 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
#96. I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
Rand Paul
#97. Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus perpetuating the fifty-plus-year Cold War with Cuba
Lamar Waldron
#98. Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.
Joy-Ann Reid
#99. Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.
Jose Marti
#100. I have never made a decision based on race and never will.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
