Hugo Chavez Quotes - Page 3

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

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.

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.

Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

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.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

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.

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

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.

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.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

Venezuela has changed forever.

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

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.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.