Castro Quotes - Page 4

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about 'hope' and 'change'. His name was Fidel Castro.

  Rafael Cruz

  Strong, Teenager, Military

  "Geraldo Rivera: A Cruz Missile Aimed At Nueva America?" by Geraldo Rivera, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2013.

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• I like Fidel Castro and his beard.

  Bob Dylan

  Beard

  Song: Motorpsycho Nightmare, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• [Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

  Oliver Stone

  Rights, Records, Very Good

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• US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

  Rachael Price

  Two, People, Track

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, People, Bolivia

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Politician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that way: The pope is simply saying...? Has he ever said that Mao Tse-tung, that Fidel Castro, that Raul Castro, any other communist is not a Christian? Why Donald Trump? 'Cause Trump wants to build a wall?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Country, Wall

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Brother, Citizens, Christianity

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

  John Gimlette

  Regimes, Totalitarian Regimes

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.

  John Gimlette

  Doe, Cuba, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

  John Gimlette

  Real, Cuba, Culture

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  Ted Cruz

  School, Talking, Years

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Why do you think there's so many thousands of Cuban doctors in Florida? Because they all had to leave Cuba. Because doctors were rich, and so the [Fidel] Castro government began confiscating all their property. Not much different from this plan to tax you at a higher rate if you and your family, you and your spouse make over $250,000. You're rich! So they must confiscate more your money.

  Rafael Cruz

  Thinking, Doctors, Florida

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

  Huey Newton

  Mother, School, Revolution

  Source: www.afro.com

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• Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Return, Clinton

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Justice, Safety

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.

  Salvador Allende

  Men, Self, Giving

  Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com

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• My whole thing is I don't take from Castro being an intelligent man as long as he is doing the thing that needs to be done. But the thing is at the end of the day you're not bettering the island. You're only making it worse. So, for me it's just making sure that people have the right to speak their minds and have an opportunity in life to better their life.

  Pitbull

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

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• Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

  Scott Simon

  Leader, Revolutionary, Ruthless

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.

  Scott Simon

  Years, Space, Everyday

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.

  Scott Simon

  Gay, Cracks, Kind

  "Cuba Reacts To Fidel Castro's Death". Interview with Scott Simon, kccu.org. November 26, 2016.

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• For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Doe, Likes

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• The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

  Barbara Walters

  Feelings, Bigger

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• The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Men, Political

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• The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

  Bernie Sanders

  Praise, Economy, Cuban

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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