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

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.

The greatest achievement is self discovery.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

Have character, don't be one.

Providing internship opportunities… changes the whole equation.

I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.

There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.