Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Hirt

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

Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Fidel Castro

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

We're hopeful that Cuba will be able to play.

Venezuela and Cuba don't have anything at risk in Bolivia.

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.

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.

Brit Marling

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Diana Nyad

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

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.

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.

Evo Morales

We are here to resolve social problems, economic problems. This movement is not only in Bolivia; Fidel in Cuba and Hugo in Venezuela are logging triumphs in social movements and leftist policies.

Never in the history of Cuba has there been these kinds of meetings between foreigners and representatives of the opposition.

Chris Neil

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

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.

Fidel Castro

I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.

Andy Garcia

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

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

David Maraniss

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

Daisy Fuentes

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

There are a lot of splits in households over the heritage and the loss of it. Cubans here are different. Some leave out parts of their heritage.

It is a great privilege for all of us to see you here together, ... We feel like we are living a special moment, and that, in Latin America, Cuba is not alone.

I thought he could be what he was in Cuba again, ... He's been even better than I imagined.

This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.

What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.

He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway,

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

If they're going to read something, let it be the truth, not growing up thinking that the kids in Cuba are living happy lives and that they're free and that they have all the rights that all the other kids in the world have, which they don't.

unequivocal signal of support for the Cuban people.

Barack Obama

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

To the Cubans, and by Cubans I mean the man on the street, this is like the Elgin marbles.

Nestor Carbonell

I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.