I’ve been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings. – Hugo Chavez
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. – Hugo Chavez
Fidel is a Marxist-Leninist. I am not. Fidel is an atheist. I am not. One day, we discussed God and Christ. I told Castro, I am a Christian. I believe in the Social Gospels of Christ. He doesn’t. Just doesn’t. More than once, Castro told me that Venezuela is not Cuba, and we are not in the 1960s. – Hugo Chavez
Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil. – Hugo Chavez
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. – Hugo Chavez
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. – Hugo Chavez
When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa. – Hugo Chavez
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated. – Hugo Chavez
I’m a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace. – Hugo Chavez
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They’re looking for oil. – Hugo Chavez
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. – Hugo Chavez
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries. – Hugo Chavez
Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support. – Hugo Chavez
We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism. – Hugo Chavez
Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world – monarchies, kingdoms, large powers – we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect. – Hugo Chavez
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country’s imperialist pretensions. – Hugo Chavez
There’s been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists. – Hugo Chavez
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. – Hugo Chavez
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. – Hugo Chavez