"The Stock Exchanges could not fall lower because they were already on the floor. Today, they were breathing happily thanks to the enormous injections of money artificially inflating them at the expense of the future. However, this absurdity cannot last. Bretton Woods is crumbling. The world will never be the same."

"It was then that the main battle started to preserve the independence of Cuba opposite the most powerful empire that ever was; a battle our people have waged with great dignity. Today, I am pleased to see those who defended our homeland --despite incredible obstacles, sacrifices and risks—that in these days are happily enjoying the glories of every New Year in the company of their children, their parents and their beloved."

"(...) Israel into a Middle East gendarme, the same that today threatens a considerable portion of the world population and is capable of acting with its characteristic independence and bigotry".

"The Cuban people began its struggle for independence almost seventy years later than the rest of the Latin American sister nations, its only weapons being the ‘machete’, used to cut the sugar cane, and the spirit and speed of indigenous horses.  In no time the Cuban patriots became fearsome soldiers."
"The United States took over Cuba’s national resources, best lands, trade, banks, services and main industries.  It turned us into a neo-colony.  We had to put up with that over more than sixty years, but we gained back our independence and will never cease in our struggle."
"Unable to resign themselves to the independence and exercise of the sovereign rights of Cuba, the government of that country adopted the decision to invade our territory.  The USSR had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.  The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the USSR; it was the other way around: support from the USSR was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution.  To such a degree, that when the USSR disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist."

“I have never doubted the ethics that usually characterize the people, independent of the policy of governments.”

"(...) the first human right is the right to think, the right to believe, the right to live, the right to know, the right to know dignity, the right to be treated like other human beings, the right to be independent, right to sovereignty as a people, right to dignity as a man".