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    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 year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

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    But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

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    Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

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    Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

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

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    Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

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    Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

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    Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

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    Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.

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    For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

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    For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

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    I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

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

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    I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

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    I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

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

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    If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

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    If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

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    If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

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    I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

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    I haven't any thirst for revenge.

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    I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

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    I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

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    I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

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    I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

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    Hugo Chavez

    I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

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    I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

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    I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

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    In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

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    I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.

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

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    Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

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

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    I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

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    I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

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    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.

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    It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

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    I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

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    I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

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    I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

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    Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

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    Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

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

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    Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

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    Long live the Unity of Latin America.

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    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.

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    Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.

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    Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

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    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.

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    Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.