Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.