Castro Quotes

• Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Toilets, Unions, Bathroom

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• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

  Fidel Castro

  Cuba, Cuban Revolution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Writing, Truth Is, Dictatorship

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• I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Book, June, Firsts

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• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Parent, Exhibitions

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• What I do see is Cuban people that are just - want to see change. They are vibrant. They are trying to fix up old cars, so they can start their tourism businesses. There's hundreds of thousands of small companies that have already started under some exceptions that Raul Castro has put into place.

  Amy Klobuchar

  People, Car, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

  Andy Garcia

  Individual

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". "In Style" magazine. Interview with Mark Morrison, www.oocities.org. 1999.

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• How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Men, People

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• President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Loyalty, Commitment, Walking Away

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

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• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  Gary Ackerman

  Thinking, Perspective, Important

  "Code Pink Targets Congressman Gary Ackerman's Boat". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2008.

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• President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

  David Letterman

  Holiday, Golf, House

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• President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

  Conan O'Brien

  President, Cuba, Diplomatic Relations

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• I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

  Robert Reisner

  Jobs, New York, Media

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• The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

  Mark Falcoff

  Islands, Government, Color

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Children, Party

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that's part of the Castro spirit.

  Aaron McGruder

  Thinking, Long, Spirit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.

  Mitt Romney

  Commitment, Doubt, President

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• Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done so yet because his brother, who is ideologically opposed to them, is still alive. What he will do when Fidel dies remains to be seen.

  Mark Falcoff

  Brother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

  Mark Falcoff

  Government, Long, Cuba

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Brother, Thinking, Stronger

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• There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

  Elliott Abrams

  Example, Passing, Dictatorship

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• Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

  Janio Quadros

  Reform, Brazil, Revolutionary

  "One Man's Cup of Coffee". Time Magazine profile, content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

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• I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

  Mark Falcoff

  Brother, President, May

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Writing, Law, Achievement

  "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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