Cuban Quotations | Page 2

They committed no crime in holding this meeting ... the Cuban government is violating civil rights here.

The visit of the pope is to the church, to the Cuban people, ... To talk about a visit to the regime means devaluing somewhat this visit.

the U.S. government is delusional with the idea that it can overthrow the Cuban revolution.

The U.S. and Cuban travel restrictions reflect an utter disregard for the welfare of families. Both countries are sacrificing people's freedom of movement to promote dead-end policies.

They are guilty with their Cuban Adjustment Act and with their broadcasts and exhortations to leave illegally ... of the dozens, maybe hundreds of people, who die in those attempts, ... They don't give them visas. Then they receive them as heroes.

There've been so many battles between the Puerto Rican nationals and Cuba in tournaments like the Pan American Games. Fans in Puerto Rico know a lot about Cuban baseball.

This is Cuban baseball. Cuba is not gone. We're still here to play and whoever wants to beat Cuba will have to sweat it out.

In honor of this film, our opening night feed features Cuban food and Andy, who plays bongos, is scheduled to be part of a band.

I'm very happy. With so many foreign broadcast journalists watching, it was a good opportunity to see that Cuban baseball players play well anywhere in the world and at any level.

I had already done a two-chapter subplot on the second Cuban revolution in the book 'Under Siege' in 1990,

If you take this to its logical extreme, no Cuban can stay at any American hotel in the world and no Cuban can buy a McDonald's hamburger anywhere.

Because he threw like that in Cuba, Duque said, 'Hey, let's go back to being a Cuban pitcher,'

But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

A left-wing guerrilla is somebody who belongs to an organization that by now is 30 or 40 years old. There are several guerrilla groups in Colombia, not just one. And they more or less adhere to a Maoist or a traditional Cuban approach to revolution.

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

The hotel in Mexico City is a U.S. subsidiary, and therefore prohibited from providing a service to Cuba or Cuban nationals.

The idea of people who are educated by the state having an obligation to contribute to society is perfectly sensible. But this is an extreme measure that undermines the right of people to leave any country including their own. It is one of the most effective tools Cuban authorities have for intimidating people critical of the government.

All we wanted to do was to show the quality of Cuban baseball.

The Cuban way could easily be applied to other countries with similar economic conditions and even in countries with greater resources....

The Cuban team is an enigma. Everyone knows they produce tremendous players but it's always been difficult to gauge their overall talent because we don't see them play against the best players in the Major Leagues. Obviously the betting public thinks this dark horse just might break through the pack.

The Cuban team has such a great ability in each player, and they can do a lot of different things.

The Cuban regime's hurling of angry and often violent groups against pro-democratic dissidents is particularly disgusting.

The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation.

The Cuban people are trapped between a cruel dictator in Cuba and nonsense policies ... on this side of the Straits of Florida.

The Cuban national, by virtue of the fact that he's Cuban and eligible to adjust his status under the Cuban Adjustment Act will still be processed for removal, but he'll have the opportunity to request to stay.

The Cuban government is taking charge of the situation. We are standing down.

The Cuban government is doing everything it can to manipulate this process.

The Cuban government has not agreed to accept the return of such individuals. We will continue to work together on this issue. It is a long-standing problem. We haven't found a solution to it yet, but we're going to continue to work the issue.

The Cuban government has not agreed to accept the return of such individuals,

The Cuban agricultural, conventional, 'Green Revolution' system never was able to feed the people. It had high yields, but was oriented to plantation agriculture. We exported citrus, tobacco, sugar cane and we imported the basic things. So the system, even in the good times, never fulfilled people's basic needs.

I'm Cuban and I always will be.

And at the foot of our new bridge is a place that makes Cuban sandwiches,

The kind of high-decibel extreme emotion, even the language that a lot of Cuban Americans used about the Elian case turned off a lot of people,

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

Maria Canals-Barrera is Cuban and from Miami and I'm part Cuban and from Miami, so needless to say she became a quick friend.

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.