We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTROI would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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