Andy Garcia Quotes

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Political or religious dissenters are the plague of every totalitarian regime.

Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

The Cuban people do not live in freedom.

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.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

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

It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

...instantly introduce mass terror, shoot and transport hundreds of prostitutes who get the soldiers drunk, ex-officers, etc. Not a minute to be wasted...You must act at full stretch: mass searches. Executions for possession of weapons. Mass deportations of Mensheviks and unreliable elements.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Thorough consideration should be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro

He [Rafael Trujillo] had his torture chambers. He had his political assassinations. But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary, built public works, and he didn’t bother the United States. So that was fine with us.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

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 own people.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

I'm not Cuban and therefore don't have any family members who were oppressed by Castro's regime. But I do have a number of friends whose families were.

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.