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As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.
When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!
We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.
Culturally, musically, historically Cuba and Puerto Rico are like two wings of one bird.
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.
Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.
Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.
[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.
In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.
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?
In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.
Rebuilding our relationship with Cuba would be a win for American business and a win for the Cuban people.
It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.
Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
Clearly America businesses are interested in opening up new markets not just in Cuba, but all over the world.
In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment.
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.
Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.
The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.
What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.
Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.
We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.
Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.
It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.
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.
I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.