Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Elliott Abrams

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

Francisco Soberon

We have instructed all Cuban firms to start using the euro as of the first of June of this year in transactions with the 11 nations of the European Union as well as several others.

Louie Gohmert

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

Michael Parmly

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Bill Moyers

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Sally Johnson

His symptoms will go into remission sufficiently enough to stand trial. There is a high likelihood that he will regain competency. His interest and his interpersonal functioning has been improving. (But) his delusional thoughts have continued.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

Lady Gaga

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Willie Randolph

He has the tendency to overthrow the ball. I'm sure tonight it was no different.

Brigitte Bardot

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the government.