Julian Castro quote: "Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama."

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually...
JULIAN CASTRO

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities b...
JULIAN CASTRO

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold W...
JULIAN CASTRO

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don...
JULIAN CASTRO

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran f...
JULIAN CASTRO

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni...
JULIAN CASTRO

We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand ...
JULIAN CASTRO

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'...
JULIAN CASTRO

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, ...
JULIAN CASTRO

Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.
JULIAN CASTRO

The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and s...
JULIAN CASTRO

The prosperity of the United States and the prosperity of the Hispanic community, as the fastest-gro...
JULIAN CASTRO

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action t...
JULIAN CASTRO

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as ...
JULIAN CASTRO

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to in...
JULIAN CASTRO

The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO

As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO

The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.
JULIAN CASTRO

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
JULIAN CASTRO

I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the ...
JULIAN CASTRO

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or...
JULIAN CASTRO

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
FIDEL CASTRO

A revolution is not a bed of roses.
FIDEL CASTRO

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in...
FIDEL CASTRO

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that...
FIDEL CASTRO

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
FIDEL CASTRO

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every C...
FIDEL CASTRO

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of inte...
FIDEL CASTRO

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRO

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
FIDEL CASTRO

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned...
FIDEL CASTRO

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Th...
FIDEL CASTRO

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTRO

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, h...
FIDEL CASTRO

You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the ex...
FIDEL CASTRO

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also human...
FIDEL CASTRO

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
FIDEL CASTRO

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRO

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

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...
FIDEL CASTRO

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
FIDEL CASTRO

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...
FIDEL CASTRO

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO

'No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
FIDEL CASTRO

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that cl...
FIDEL CASTRO

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other ...
FIDEL CASTRO

The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and t...
FIDEL CASTRO

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had To do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. I...
FIDEL CASTRO

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in t...
FIDEL CASTRO

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church i...
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTRO

Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... Yo...
FIDEL CASTRO

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTRO

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used ...
FIDEL CASTRO

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no mat...
FIDEL CASTRO

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an acco...
FIDEL CASTRO

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to who...
FIDEL CASTRO

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system h...
FIDEL CASTRO

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civiliz...
FIDEL CASTRO

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration tha...
FIDEL CASTRO

It's been my desire from the beginning to bring a championship-caliber tournament to Ocala.
BERNADETTE CASTRO

[John Norbeck, the state parks regional director, said the adjacent picnic shelter and playground al...
BERNADETTE CASTRO

New York's park visitors enjoy seeing the tremendous variety of animals that call our State Parks ho...
BERNADETTE CASTRO

And we will have 1,200 homes in our backyard that can drive their golf carts in to shop,
BERNADETTE CASTRO

But now our future is real estate, ... And one thing my father taught me was that you don't get into...
BERNADETTE CASTRO

Governor Pataki continues to be an outstanding steward of our public lands by preserving and expandi...
BERNADETTE CASTRO

I am absolutely thrilled, ... It is magnificent.
BERNADETTE CASTRO

The pool is over 50 years old and it has absolutely gotten to the point that we need to start over.
BERNADETTE CASTRO

These two days of hearings have been invaluable. I think every member of the committee learned somet...
BERNADETTE CASTRO

Partnership is the key word here. This is not about the Castro family selling out and moving along. ...
BERNADETTE CASTRO

They came out to prove to the world they belong in pro baseball.
BILL CASTRO

He would have made us a lot better.
BILL CASTRO

When is a good time to do it? Nobody knows. Right now, everybody's getting ready for the season in s...
BILL CASTRO

When the team is getting better, it's tougher for a guy to make a team. And it's tougher for us coac...
BILL CASTRO

I think it shows the diversity of Dayton. That being able to do something different can be well supp...
BILL CASTRO

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the...
FIDEL CASTRO

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...
FIDEL CASTRO

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observe...
FIDEL CASTRO

I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and ...
FIDEL CASTRO

On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he...
FIDEL CASTRO

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of ...
FIDEL CASTRO

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and we...
FIDEL CASTRO

Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was...
FIDEL CASTRO

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
FIDEL CASTRO

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now ...
FIDEL CASTRO

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
FIDEL CASTRO

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circu...
FIDEL CASTRO

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and ...
FIDEL CASTRO

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
FIDEL CASTRO

I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it al...
FIDEL CASTRO

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and s...
FIDEL CASTRO

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the...
FIDEL CASTRO

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
FIDEL CASTRO

Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast ener...
FIDEL CASTRO

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had du...
FIDEL CASTRO

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
FIDEL CASTRO

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Sovie...
FIDEL CASTRO

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or de...
FIDEL CASTRO

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of ...
FIDEL CASTRO

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middl...
FIDEL CASTRO

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts a...
FIDEL CASTRO

A revolution is a struggle between the past and the future.
FIDEL CASTRO

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTRO

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, includ...
JOAQUIN CASTRO

He was so full of joy. And he had such a lovable spirit. Any time that anyone went over there, he wo...
DAISY CASTRO

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United St...
FIDEL CASTRO

It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the gran...
FIDEL CASTRO

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other ...
FIDEL CASTRO

It was really, really, really heavy. I was expecting missiles in there, but it was empty.
CHRIS CASTRO

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this en...
FIDEL CASTRO

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be era...
RAUL CASTRO

I'm not Mike Piazza,
RAMON CASTRO

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was pr...
FIDEL CASTRO

It (the plan) is a repugnant and immoral maneuver, a rude reply to the pope's proposals... an insult...
FIDEL CASTRO

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethical...
FIDEL CASTRO

We are the rebels of the West, ... And Malaysia is the rebel of the East.
FIDEL CASTRO

History will absolve me
FIDEL CASTRO

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought ...
FIDEL CASTRO

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
FIDEL CASTRO

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but bec...
FIDEL CASTRO

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
FIDEL CASTRO

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the surviva...
FIDEL CASTRO

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
FIDEL CASTRO

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that c...
FIDEL CASTRO

The best part appearing in 'Jersey Girl' was meeting my idol Jennifer Lopez.
RAQUEL CASTRO

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about o...
FIDEL CASTRO

We expected to do the same thing in the second half. We just couldn't hang on in the last five minut...
ALEXIS CASTRO

She's showing more confidence every day.
ALEXIS CASTRO

We need our defense to be better than it was. Offensively, we just need to keep doing what we did --...
ALEXIS CASTRO

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
FIDEL CASTRO

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us ...
FIDEL CASTRO

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthie...
FIDEL CASTRO

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

There is no country in the world where the empire's mercenaries enjoy the privileges they do in Cuba...
FIDEL CASTRO

Whatever we get will be used there for the martyrs of Katrina, be it one million (dollars), two, thr...
FIDEL CASTRO

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, us...
FIDEL CASTRO

[He charged that other INS documents make reference to efforts to] Show Fidel, ... we gave child bac...
FIDEL CASTRO

Thank you for coming to reinforce us in the difficult struggle that we are undergoing today, to pres...
FIDEL CASTRO

Sometimes I have the impression that our debates are unreal. It's as though the United States didn't...
FIDEL CASTRO

If it takes months, so be it, they will wait it out,
FIDEL CASTRO

It would be a crime not to go to the appeal, ... The passports are ready and of course the airplane ...
FIDEL CASTRO

Humanity will preserve an emotional memory of the tireless work of His Holiness John Paul II in favo...
FIDEL CASTRO

The plane will be ready to leave Tuesday if the visas are granted,
FIDEL CASTRO

For every word you have said -- even those I might disagree with -- on behalf of all the Cuban peopl...
FIDEL CASTRO

put an end to the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people that is taking place while the wor...
FIDEL CASTRO

They were planning a parallel summit.
FIDEL CASTRO

If Mohammed can't go to the mountain, the mountain will go to Mohammed,
FIDEL CASTRO

You cannot do this without the authorization of the father, ... I sincerely think that this boy is a...
FIDEL CASTRO

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in t...
FIDEL CASTRO

Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common se...
FIDEL CASTRO

denied any guilt associated with these crimes.
DAVID CASTRO

We weren't able to rebound. It's hard with that big guy (Richardson-Osgood) in the middle.
EDWARD CASTRO

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortabl...
FIDEL CASTRO

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wa...
FIDEL CASTRO

Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that ...
FIDEL CASTRO

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
FIDEL CASTRO

The concern is that there will be less money available to stocks in emerging markets.
ANDRE CASTRO

Stock selection will be a fundamental strategy to guarantee profitability of the portfolios. There w...
ANDRE CASTRO

Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and wil...
RAUL CASTRO

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
FIDEL CASTRO

I love helping people. It did give me the feeling that keeps me going.
VIRGILIO CASTRO

(Honey) wasn't spectacular, but he earned his first varsity win.
JASON CASTRO

When I reached the concrete area, about 15 or 20 meters from the first row of chairs, I did not real...
FIDEL CASTRO

Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRO

If all roads lead to Rome, we can only wish for thousands of roads to lead to Revolutionary Rome!
FIDEL CASTRO

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.
DAVID CASTRO

Just ask the violent offenders that I have successfully tried and prosecuted myself, ... Go ask them...
TONY CASTRO

Cuba stands by Pakistan in this hour of trial,
FIDEL CASTRO

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back...
FIDEL CASTRO

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bi...
FIDEL CASTRO

It looked like he flew out the window. He has asthma, so the smoke made him very sick, and he was cu...
HELEN CASTRO

They always advertise it as mixed with something else.
FIDEL CASTRO

We have been on Capitol Hill, sharing our concerns regarding whether we will get equal treatment for...
CHRIS CASTRO

The resume is a summary,
TONY CASTRO

We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and h...
FIDEL CASTRO

We are going to discuss, let's get an agreement, and really help each other mutually in cases of dis...
FIDEL CASTRO

We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... Thi...
FIDEL CASTRO

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...
FIDEL CASTRO

It doesn't make sense. He [was] a chemistry professor, and they name the Student Center after him?
JUAN CASTRO

Hugo, nothing can stop you now,
FIDEL CASTRO

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that ...
FIDEL CASTRO

hysterical lunatic and loose tyrant.
FIDEL CASTRO

I've seen them quit after one week. You get sweaty. You get dirty. Your back hurts. ... They just do...
JOSE CASTRO

The mood got better abroad and that spread to here. International flow is feeding our market.
ANDRE CASTRO

In the army of the workers there must be discipline; there must be comradeship, there must be unity;...
FIDEL CASTRO

a bunch of kidnappers.
FIDEL CASTRO

[Meanwhile, the memory of U.S. presidential complicity in assassination plots is very nearly dead. T...
FIDEL CASTRO

If they say they are not going to do anything for the World Championships, then I have to think abou...
CASTRO MARQUES

Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.

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Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.

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