Brazil Quote by Franklin Foer

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution…

— Martin Amis

A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to…

— Michel Temer

Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal…

— Gilberto Gil

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like…

— Francisco Costa

Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and…

— Amy Irving

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to…

— Dionne Warwick

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

— Paulo Freire

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become…

— Vik Muniz

“This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before…

— Bill Clinton

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau