Hugo Chavez
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.Collection: Rights
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.Collection: Dog
What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.Collection: Hurt
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.Collection: Democracy
Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.Collection: Justice
We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.Collection: Competition
Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.Collection: Hate
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.Collection: Snakes
If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.Collection: Climate
I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.Collection: Jobs
The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.Collection: Home
The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.Collection: World
Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.Collection: Israel
Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.Collection: Jesus
Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.Collection: Oil
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.Collection: Weakness
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.Collection: Gaddafi
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.Collection: Path
What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.Collection: Want
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.Collection: Reading
For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.Collection: Iraq
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.Collection: Iran
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.Collection: Government
We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.Collection: Believe
I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Children
The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.Collection: Oil
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.Collection: Kings
Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.Collection: School
I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Country
Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.Collection: Israel
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.Collection: Doubt
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.Collection: Democracy
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.Collection: Baby
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.Collection: Race
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!Collection: Empires
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.Collection: Heart
The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.Collection: Taken
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.Collection: Brother
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.Collection: Wish
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.Collection: Believe
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.Collection: Civilization
Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.Collection: School
It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.Collection: Dog
I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.Collection: Oil
Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.Collection: Wander