Cuba Quotes

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

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

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.