Cuba Quotes
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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 Miami Sound Machine -
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
Leonard Peikoff
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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
William McKinley -
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?
Edwidge Danticat -
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!
William Levy -
One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway -
I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.
Artie Lange
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First of all, the Cuban health system is free for everyone, without distinction of race or ideology or culture. It is absolutely free for all of Cuba. That is a principle that cannot be violated, because medicine cannot be a business.
Aleida Guevara -
We are very hopeful that ... Cuba will be allowed to participate on the terms that have been negotiated. It is critical that Cuba participates. Cuba is an important international program, the defending Olympic champion, and ought to be in the World Baseball Classic.
Bob DuPuy -
I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.
Erich Leinsdorf -
According to a gringo who must be a true spendthrift, Cuba is always the best place to eat and to drink.
Nicolas Guillen -
Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
Achy Obejas -
I've been to Cuba many times.
Euzhan Palcy
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When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.
Carlos Curbelo -
I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.
Jennine Capó Crucet -
I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
Jimmy Carter -
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
Stephen M. Walt -
In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.
Erislandy Lara