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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. -- Richard M. Nixon
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba. -- Fidel Castro
I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. -- Andy Garcia
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba. -- Mark Falcoff
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung. -- Colin Powell
Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying. -- Ronald Reagan
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America. -- Mark Falcoff
My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given. -- Marco Rubio
I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity. -- Evo Morales
There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel [Castro] it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S. -- Evo Morales
Fidel Castro was a born rebel. -- Tom Gjelten
Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately. -- Tom Gjelten
I like Fidel Castro and his beard. -- Bob Dylan
Fidel Castro for me is like a father. -- Elian Gonzalez
[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world. -- Naomi Campbell
He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything. -- Jack Nicholson
[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record. -- Oliver Stone
Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street. -- Harvey Milk
Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro's done is superb. -- Helen Caldicott
I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies -- Art Buchwald
Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die! -- Louis Farrakhan
The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is. -- Barbara Walters
Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked. -- Steven Soderbergh
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none. -- Louis Farrakhan
[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met. -- Emanuel Cleaver
Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century. -- Tom Gjelten
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews. -- Barbara Walters
The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro. -- Bernie Sanders
I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro. -- Robert Reisner
Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him. -- Andy Garcia
As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home. -- Tom Gjelten
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent. -- Scott Simon
Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen? -- Rush Limbaugh
Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen? -- Rush Limbaugh
As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority. -- Tom Gjelten
When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba. -- Carlos Curbelo
Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people. -- Gloria Estefan
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. -- Elliott Abrams
Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo. -- Chris Christie
We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult. -- Oliver Stone
Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights. -- Donald Trump
It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution. -- Dorothy Day
What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists. -- Ronald Reagan
Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing. -- Gloria Estefan
Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil. -- Janio Quadros
Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God." -- Louis Farrakhan
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. -- Oscar Isaac
Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals. -- Stephen Kinzer
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States. -- Noam Chomsky
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
Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a pillow. -- Bill Maher
Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge. -- Louis Farrakhan
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent. -- Nicolas Maduro
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The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.' -- Jesse Ventura
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I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights. -- Louis Farrakhan
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. -- Saul Alinsky
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy. -- Andy Garcia
When I was 14, in Cuba, I met Fidel Castro with my dad, and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level, I met Justin Timberlake! -- Dylan Penn
Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution. -- Tom Gjelten
The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere. -- Robert Dallek
The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights. -- Andy Garcia
Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist." -- Louis Farrakhan
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
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
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime. -- Mel Martinez
Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro, and that's why he will never die. -- Louis Farrakhan
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
Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded. -- Ian Svenonius
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth. -- Robert Dallek
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro. -- Artie Lange
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent. -- Barbara Walters
[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared. -- Robert Kennedy
Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head. -- Stephen Colbert
It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man. -- Kevin Costner
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
Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world. -- Tom Gjelten
A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother. -- Bill Maher
I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path. -- Elian Gonzalez
I love Fidel Castro, I respect Fidel Castro, you know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf****r is still here. -- Ozzie Guillen
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
I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control. -- Monte Irvin
I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there. -- Pitbull
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
Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective. -- Louis Farrakhan
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes. -- Calvin Trillin
The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down. -- Dorothy Day
Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting and charity in that sense, but he gave it all, to make humanity better. -- Louis Farrakhan
Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better course? -- Stephen Kinzer
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
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
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
A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba. -- Louis Farrakhan
It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime. -- Andy Garcia
The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro's stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba. -- Tom Gjelten
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
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
Comandante Fidel Castro sent his people there into Africa, in the Caribbean; they died right alongside of others who were seeking the blessing of justice and freedom and equity. What other man do you know who did such a thing? -- Louis Farrakhan
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. -- Mitt Romney
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. -- Mitt Romney
If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes! -- Harry Belafonte
I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm? -- Gloria Estefan
Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life. -- Dorothy Day
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
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
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. -- Gore Vidal
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. -- Michael Specter

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