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Castro Quotes

Voices on Cuba, exile, and life before and after the revolution.

This Castro quotes collection includes a Cuban-born voice recalling their birth the same year Fidel Castro rose to power, before their Father moved the family to Miami.

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war...

Quotes by Aaron McGruder

I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.

Quotes by Steven Bauer

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S....

Quotes by Sirio Maccioni

I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when...

Quotes by Robert Englund

America Quotes

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.

Quotes by Pitbull

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.

Quotes by Mel Martinez

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.

Quotes by Lincoln Diaz-Balart

The Obama administration benefited the Castro regime. The Trump administration plans to benefit the Cuban people by taking away power from the government and directly emboldening citizens.

Quotes by Katie Pavlich

Fidel is a Marxist-Leninist. I am not. Fidel is an atheist. I am not. One day, we discussed God and Christ. I told Castro, I am a Christian. I believe in the Social Gospels of Christ. He doesn't. Just doesn't....

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

Cuba Quotes

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...

Quotes by Harry Belafonte

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.

Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

Quotes by Elian Gonzalez

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!

Quotes by Dylan Penn

Father Quotes

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were...

Quotes by Chrissie Fit

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Quotes by Che Guevara

When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

Quotes by Brin-Jonathan Butler

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his...

Quotes by Bob Menendez

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

Quotes by Bob Menendez

First Quotes

Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.

Quotes by Bob Menendez

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Castro quotes page focus on?
It focuses on Cuba's modern history, gathering quotes from Cuban-born speakers and observers reflecting on life before Castro's rise, exile to the United States, and the country's politics since.
Why do people search for Castro quotes?
Readers search for Castro quotes when researching Cuban history or looking for firsthand perspectives from people whose families were directly shaped by the Cuban Revolution.
Does this page take a side on Cuban or U.S. politics?
No, the quotes represent differing personal and political viewpoints on Cuba, and this page presents them as historical statements rather than endorsing any one position.
Is there a quote about life in Cuba before the revolution?
Yes, one quote recalls building a well-known nightclub and restaurant in Havana in the 1950s, offering a glimpse of Cuban nightlife before Castro's government took power.
Does the collection include a personal, family-focused perspective?
Yes, one quote describes being born the same year Castro came to power and later moving to Miami with family, grounding the collection in one person's lived experience.

Other lines look back at Havana nightlife in the 1950s and call for supporting dissidents in Cuba today, together spanning decades of change before and after the revolution.