"I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded."

"The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change."

"Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911."

"The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other."

"The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated."

"Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated."

"I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map."

"The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero."

"The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country."

"Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms."

"Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations."

"England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century."

"No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable."

"Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy."

"During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country."

"There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."

"We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights."

"The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all."

"Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants."

"Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed."

"You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations."

"It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible."

"We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved."

"Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world."

"The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!"

"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief."

"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."

"Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times."

"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."

"I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount."

"Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba."

"Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain."

"Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!"

"I am a just man."

"...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing."

"It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense."

"The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises."

"I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on."

"On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted."

"I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States."

"At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran."

"Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union."

"To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome."

"None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example."

"Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war."

"Today, the entire country is an immense University."

"General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible."

"Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis."

"Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle."

"Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life."