Chavez Quote by David Frum
“One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world.”
![“That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.” quote by Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/767/marco-rubio-355_country_that-is-i-think-that-what-i-do-that-demo_399622.jpg)
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![“We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job…” quote by Pat Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/194/pat-robertson-1972_ability_we-have-the-ability-to-take-him-presiden_23256.jpg)
![“You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don’t think any oil shipments will stop. [...] We…” quote by Pat Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c2/pat-robertson-1972_ability_you-know-i-don-t-know-about-this-doctrin_1056522.jpg)
![“What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7b/oliver-stone-1812_chavez_what-chavez-has-done-in-venezuela-is-tha_1168496.jpg)
