I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair.

- Brin-Jonathan Butler

I'd like to go to Cuba.

- Elian Gonzalez

I've been to Cuba many times.

- Euzhan Palcy

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

When I was 14, in Cuba, I met Fidel Castro with my dad, and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level, I met Justin Timberlake!

- Dylan Penn

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

- Diana Nyad

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

- Compay Segundo

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

- Carlos Fuentes

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

- Brit Marling

I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.

- Brin-Jonathan Butler

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

- Amy Tan

I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.

- Brendan I. Koerner

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

- Bob Kerrey

With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.

- Blake Farenthold

Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.

- Blake Farenthold

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

- Alberto Juantorena

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

- Alberto Juantorena

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

- Aaron McGruder

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

- Antonio Carlos Jobim

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

- Andy Garcia