Hugo Chavez

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,

— Hugo Chavez

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

— Hugo Chavez

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

— Hugo Chavez

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

— Hugo Chavez

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

— Hugo Chavez

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

— Hugo Chavez

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has…

— Hugo Chavez

Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.

— Hugo Chavez

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I…

— Hugo Chavez

The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for…

— Hugo Chavez

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

— 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…

— Hugo Chavez

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and…

— Hugo Chavez

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only…

— Hugo Chavez

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world…

— Hugo Chavez

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to…

— Hugo Chavez

Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed…

— Hugo Chavez

Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he…

— Hugo Chavez

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything…

— Hugo Chavez

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There…

— Hugo Chavez

Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water,…

— Hugo Chavez

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

— Hugo Chavez

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with…

— Hugo Chavez

We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will…

— Hugo Chavez

It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have…

— Hugo Chavez

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to…

— 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

The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express…

— Hugo Chavez

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

— Hugo Chavez

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do…

— Hugo Chavez

If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could…

— Hugo Chavez

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per…

— Hugo Chavez

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

— Hugo Chavez

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary…

— Hugo Chavez

I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children…

— Hugo Chavez

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

— Hugo Chavez

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

— Hugo Chavez

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that…

— Hugo Chavez

Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we…

— Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

— Hugo Chavez