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.
I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
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.
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country – people without health insurance. 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.
It’s a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
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.
I think developed countries – so-called developed countries – should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
Mutual respect! That’s what it takes to be friends.
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country’s imperialist pretensions.
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
There is no turning back.
We’re not perfect, but we do have democracy.
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.