Hugo Chavez Quotes

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.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

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

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.

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

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.

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.

The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.

That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.

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.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

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

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.

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.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

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.

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

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.