Hugo Chavez Quotes (149 Quotes)

We have the opportunity to break from the path of imposed domination and servitude,

They accuse us of buying arms to give them to the guerrillas no, they're for our troops, ... They are a terrorist state, but they accuse us of being terrorists.

We're going to build that gas pipeline, ... to all of South America for the next 200 years.

I'm asking them (the opposition) 'Where is your plan', ... 'Where is your alternative' All they want is turn to Venezuela into a U.S. colony.

Venezuela has changed forever.

The minister of energy and mines leaves tomorrow for Cairo, Egypt, for the extraordinary meeting of OPEC, which will surely decide on that 1.5 million bpd OPEC cut.

The U.S. government took no precautions, knowing that New Orleans is a city below sea level. The government evacuated no one. How many thousands died that could have been evacuated by air, land or sea Not one ship was mobilized, not one helicopter, before the hurricane.

The world will have to get used to a barrel of oil priced above 50 dollars, ... It will be difficult to increase production.

We are very happy to be in Baghdad, to smell the scent of history and to walk on the bank of the Tigris River,

We've had to move the international reserves from U.S. banks because of the threats,

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention -- and saying no to death,

They threaten to kill me from there and then deny visas to my closest security team who have been with me for years ... they deny my medical team their visas, I'm going to have to walk around the Big Apple by myself,

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

But my government and I reserve the right to take legal action on the case,

are robbing the Venezuelan people of its legitimate right to the wealth of its natural resources ... what we are doing is to recover national sovereignty over our own resources

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

I know he will listen to me, that my petitions will reach his ears,

Iran has every right . . . to develop atomic energy and to continue its research in that area, ... All over the world, there is a clamor for equality . . . and profound rejection of the imperialist desires of the U.S. government. Faced with the threat of the U.S. government against our brother people in Iran, count on us for all our support.

Today we know there were never weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but despite that, and going over the head of the United Nations, Iraq was bombed and occupied. So the United Nations must be pulled out of the United States,

You are a coward because you did not go to Iraq to lead your armed forces. It is very easy to command them from afar. If it occurs to you one day to invade Venezuela, I will be here waiting for you on the savanna, Mr Danger.

The only place where a person can ask for another head of state to be assassinated is the United States, which is what happened recently with the Reverend Pat Robertson, a very close friend of the White House, ... He publicly asked for my assassination and he's still walking the streets.

There is no turning back.

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

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.

kingdom of equality, freedom and peace being based on justice.

Today the big loser was Mr. Bush, ... the five musketeers.

He has been the first president who has kept his word to a people who have been stripped of their lands.

Some people say he is the devil, but the devil is in hell.

I love the people of the United States.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

I want to recognize the efforts made to resist this steamrollering... this lack of respect by the imperialistic United States government,

We can do whatever we want with the planes. Maybe we'll send 10 to Cuba, or maybe to China so that they can see the technology. I say with whatever country that can use them,

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.

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

Venezuela was a colony of the U.S. empire for a long time. Today we're free, and the world should know it,

If someday they get the crazy idea of coming to invade us, we'll make them bite the dust defending the freedom of our land,

We are all going to read Quixote to feed our spirit with this fighter who came out to get rid of injustice and fix the world, ... To some degree, we are followers of Quixote.

The planet is being destroyed under our own noses by the capitalist model, the destructive engine of development, ... every day there is more hunger, more misery thanks to the neo-liberal, capitalist model.

We have suffered from this tragedy as though we were from Martinique, as though we were French, ... I pray that this tragedy ... on Venezuelan soil helps us reinforce our unity ... We are all Caribbean.

We don't want to be rich but we do want to live well, with dignity, as brothers, so there is no misery, so there is no poverty, so people are not excluded - that is among our fundamental objectives.

I like to hear his speeches because they reach you. He tells the people the truth,

That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... and left its own population adrift,

The vote shows the depth of the two countries' brotherly and friendly ties,

There are a lot of urgent things to take care of now, ... We must fix that light that has been broken. I call for peace. I call for strength within all Venezuelans.

the period should pass into history in which Hugo Chavez has to be mayor, governor and has to be in charge of everything.

I shouldn't say I hope you win because they will accuse me of sticking my nose into Nicaraguan internal affairs. But I hope you win.

They've called me a new Mussolini or Fidel Castro or said I sleep with a book by Hitler for a pillow. But the people know the truth. They know who I really am.

We will fully support the plan provided its main goal is a negotiated peace settlement, ... What worries us is the plan's strong military-oriented focus. The level of military involvement must be lowered.

It's dangerous, because I'm threatened with death, so you have to understand that the security team surrounding me is on alert,