Hugo Chavez Quotes (149 Quotes)


    I think the president of the United States spoke for twenty minutes here yesterday. I would ask your indulgence to let me finish my statement.

    As more information comes out now, a terrible truth is becoming evident That government doesn't have evacuation plans,

    We're at the doorway of major energy crisis worldwide,

    consumerism on an irrational capitalist model.

    It looks like Mr. Danger intervened there.


    Don't ask me to give you the state's rights to exploit mines, to exploit oil, ... Before all else comes national unity.

    The United States is the champion of double standards. The United States' government defends terrorism. They talk of the fight against the terrorism, but they commit terrorism, state terrorism,

    The New Tribes are leaving Venezuela. This is an irreversible decision that I have made, ... We don't want the New Tribes here. Enough colonialism


    If they don't comply with the contract ... we can do whatever we want with these aircraft, whatever the hell we want. Maybe we'll give 10 planes to Cuba or to China so they can study the technology,

    will open the door to a new national existence.

    Although we may not believe it, there continues to be great discrimination here against black people.

    For us Catholics, Pope John Paul II will be remembered as a travelling 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.

    Yesterday was very interesting, ... Some defended free trade, while we proposed various alternatives beyond the mirages of a free trade agreement.

    You are a true leader, friend, ... The whole nation is waiting for you.

    There were never weapons of mass destruction but Iraq was bombed, and over U.N. objections, (it was) occupied and continues being occupied,

    We place at the disposition of the people of the United States in the event of shortages -- we have drinking water, food, we can provide fuel,


    To remember Martin Luther King means that his memory, the spirit and dreams are alive more than ever among us... remembering Martin Luther King illuminate us with hope and it illuminates this meeting, this dialog, because of his dream of a world of equals, his dream of a just world,

    The birth has occurred. A new republic has been born.

    That's why we propose to this assembly that the United Nations leave this country, which is not respectful of the very resolutions of this assembly,

    Venezuela is being born again. Once again the people of Simon Bolivar have shown themselves to be a grand people.

    Please - let's not talk about Chavez any more He is in every conversation in Venezuela, and I am sick of it

    For four days there were warnings that (Katrina) was going to make a direct hit, and the king of vacations at his ranch only said 'you must flee.' He did not say how, ... It's the rancher mentality.

    Dr. King spoke about about the road towards the palace of justice, and that made me remember of Bolivar, who said that justice must be the queen of all virtues,

    If the empire of the United States thinks to come here and invade Venezuela, you can be certain that the 100-year war will begin and we will defeat the North American empire on this land.

    Each one of us brought a shovel, a gravedigger's shovel, because here in Mar del Plata is the tomb of the Free Trade Area of the Americas,

    Marxism and communism have failed ... it's also true that the dogma of savage neo-liberalism has failed, too.

    Everyone on the continent is looking with a lot of interest,

    Cindy, we are with you in your fight ... she told me that in Easter she's going put up her tent again in front of the ranch of Mr. Danger.

    We have detected intelligence infiltration that threatened national security and defense,

    The majority of them are blacks, most of them Latinos,

    We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years,


    I'm ready right now with the Venezuelan central bank ... to move 5 billion (euro4.15 billion) (of Venezuelan reserves), to a South American bank,

    The times in which the OAS was an instrument of the government in Washington are gone,

    We will never lose hope of recovering a better tone, on a rational, diplomatic, political and ... economic level

    The ones who used to govern the country are the ones who gave it away. We're rescuing the country.


    Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches. This is contrary to our way,

    to have zero economic growth this year ... to stop the drop would be a success ... and reach 2.0 percent growth in the year 2000.

    It's the search for social justice, for equality, ... The capitalist model is perverse. It favors a minority and expropriates from the majority.

    The group is involved in true imperialist infiltration, the CIA, they take away sensitive, strategic information, ... And on top of that, exploiting the Indians.

    I announce that my government is going to take legal action in the United States. To call for the assassination of a head of state is an act of terrorism.

    The problem is the oil reserves are running out, ... It is a true crisis.

    Under the present circumstances, it will take at least 200 years.

    The capitalist model...imposed on us is not sustainable,

    We've written a page in our history. A new republic has been born,

    Sometimes I make mistakes, I tend to respond to any official from the government of Mr. Bush who verbally attacks Venezuela,

    They do not walk in... the path of Christ.


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