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American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.
The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.
Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.
I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.
Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.
In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.
Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.
In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.
The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.
Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.
Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
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.
We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could dream this.
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.
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean's Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.
If you think about it, the people of Cuba and North Korea will never meet because, well, they have restricted freedom of movement.
The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.
The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.
Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.
'Guava Island' is the end result of four incredible weeks spent in Cuba with some of the most inspiring creative talents I've ever met.
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.
My father came from Cuba, but he married a nice Jewish girl in Miami, and I followed suit and married a nice Jewish girl in Miami as well.
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.
My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.
There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!
In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.