Fernando Haddad

The Workers Party rose to power when the Western Left began its descent.

— Fernando Haddad

I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

— Fernando Haddad

Lula is off the charts. You cannot reproduce Lula; and you will always have to count him in.

— Fernando Haddad

No one thinks of controlling inflation of a continental-sized country by holding back municipal tariffs. Macroeconomic stability cannot be achieved through microeconomic…

— Fernando Haddad

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years,…

— Fernando Haddad

Lula aimed to both internationalize big Brazilian capital and improve the domestic market and the condition of the poorest in Brazil. In…

— Fernando Haddad

Brazil needs peace and not hate.

— Fernando Haddad

The objective of politics is always to build scenarios in which persons' horizons can be expanded evermore. Any political action that is…

— Fernando Haddad

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985,…

— Fernando Haddad

Everyone knows that the Workers' Party governments did much more good than bad for the country.

— Fernando Haddad

Without public investment, without families spending, without cheap credit, the economy won't recover.

— Fernando Haddad

My father - a Lebanese-origin small businessman - had a stroke in 1997 and couldn't work anymore. I paused my career and…

— Fernando Haddad

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

— Fernando Haddad

Bolsonaro is a tropical Trump. They have a very common agenda, a very regressive agenda, when it comes to civil rights, social…

— Fernando Haddad

What seems not yet to have been sufficiently explored is the emancipating potential of the discursive form of psychoanalysis in politics as…

— Fernando Haddad

I really believe in the power of social control coming from within the community itself. The community protecting itself, its children, its…

— Fernando Haddad

I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from…

— Fernando Haddad

Taken as a whole, the work of Marx, at the same times it shows the thesis of the growing pauperization of the…

— Fernando Haddad

Lula's foreign policy goal was to turn Brazil into a sub-imperial power, with a presence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.…

— Fernando Haddad

We combine fiscal responsibility with social responsibility.

— Fernando Haddad

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

— Fernando Haddad

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

— Fernando Haddad

Lula's political culture translated into a government project that sought to include the poor in the budget with minimal efforts in terms…

— Fernando Haddad

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

— Fernando Haddad

Bolsonaro is adopting a regressive policy as regards rights but a neoliberal policy when it comes to economic policy.

— Fernando Haddad