Top 209 Castro Quotes & Sayings

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that way: The pope is simply saying...? Has he ever said that Mao Tse-tung, that Fidel Castro, that Raul Castro, any other communist is not a Christian? Why Donald Trump? 'Cause Trump wants to build a wall?

Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen?

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.

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. More than once, Castro told me that Venezuela is not Cuba, and we are not in the 1960s.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

Fidel Castro was a born rebel.

Of course Castro was Cuba's longest serving president. After all, he was a dictator.

Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

For the last 60 years, dictator Fidel Castro was America's most persistent adversary. Although Castro formally handed off to his brother, Raul, eight years ago, the communist leader was a symbolic force in Cuba and around the world.

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.

Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that's part of the Castro spirit.

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.

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you want to talk about a disconnect. In fact, I don't think it is a disconnect. I think the left, the power brokers, the leaders, I think they actually did admire the guy. I think this is what they think Castro's power - I've always said, the people have asked me, how do these actors and people and these leftist politicians, how come they admire people like this? I said, "They envy their power." And I think there may be a lot to that.

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.

[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world.

I like Fidel Castro and his beard.

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

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

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

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

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

[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.

My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.

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.

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.

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 I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

I would love to have visited Cuba while Fidel Castro was alive.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

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 motherfucker is still here.

The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.

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.

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.