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I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.
I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.
I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
If we reduced the military expenses in 10 percent of the world, we would have enough money to save millions of lives in this world.
No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.
Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?
The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.
I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.
The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?
There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002.
Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role.
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.
If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.
The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush.
Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people's revolution, the historical revolution.
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.
The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have.
That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.