Banana Republic is just another way in which the devious, imperialist Americans and their Miami lackeys are trying to discredit the great, and ultimately irreversible, strides that the Cuban people have made during the glorious, and ongoing, Cuban revolution! Viva!
                       - Fidel Castro

Overheard In The Corridors Of Power 

Banana Republic is the opium of the people and, like capitalism, it is doomed to end up on the ash heap of history. I like the box, though...
           - Karl Marx

Yes please, throw a copy of Banana Republic on the ash heap of history. I need something to keep me company!
               - V. I. Lenin

First it was the war against Iran. Then it was Desert Storm. Then I'm deposed by a Yankee invasion. Now it's this Banana Republic! How much more must I take?!? Oy!
          - Saddam Hussein

This Banana Republic doesn't bother me at all. I can just take a shower and wash it all off. 
                      - Jacob Zuma