Ricardo Alarcon Quotations

We are prepared to forget the past, to look towards the future and to accommodate ourselves with a new relationship with America.

What they have planned is what the Americans call a 'photo opportunity.

No one has the right to monopolize any source of energy fundamental for humanity.

Nobody should expect from the congress the abandonment of what our revolution has meant.

I don't have the slightest doubt that any honest person analyzing this case will arrive at the same conclusion (as the appeals court),

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

Our view is that the Elian Gonzalez event may help us precisely to improve relations.

President Carter represents the future, a day when there will be a mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.

Who is trying to provoke (the) situation? Clearly those in Miami that are making good money with the lives of individuals. People have died.

We hope he will be allowed to govern and that outside interference in Haiti's internal affairs ceases.

We are not going to encourage illegal (emigration). Far from that. We will continue to do everything within our commitment to avoid that.

We have gotten the same message from U.S. officials -- in private -- several times that it is not advisable for this man to appear in U.S. territory,

We will do whatever is convenient for him (the father) according to his wishes in order to solve this problem.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

What the world should fight is the monopoly that some have over weapons of mass destruction and, in particular, nuclear arms.

What the U.S. government should do is grant them freedom immediately, ... If they want to accuse them of something else, then accuse them, present evidence, and search for an impartial tribunal.

Even if they invited us, we would not have come.

The whole strategy, ... is getting in forever.

The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own.

The boy belongs to his father, belongs to his family, and nobody should interfere with that,

The United States only accepts reports that are favorable. It is not surprising it continues to ignore the U.N. whenever convenient.

For almost two months, he has been arbitrarily separated from his father and his four grandparents.

It's like a work of art ... the work doesn't disappear when the author disappears,

The news pained and saddened Cubans. In their name, we wish to express our profound solidarity with the people of the United States, state and local authorities and the victims of this catastrophe.

That (prediction) is based on the assumption that you have just trouble with one man. But this is not a personal affair and it is not a personal matter -- it's a social phenomenon. It's a social process that involves millions of Cubans and not just one man.

The congress will bring ratification, reiteration of the fundamentals of the revolution.

I believe in the word of the U.S. authorities. They have expressed themselves clearly in the proper relation. Let's hope that they will find a way to simply convert its words into actions.

The law is not working. It cannot work. It will not work. After the law, we have continued trading with other countries, receiving foreign partners.

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.