Words matter. These are the best Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Venezuela needs to develop; economic growth is essential for the country after so many years of lagging behind.
I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.
It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.
They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers.
In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.
I don’t need arms, and neither does anyone else… At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
Brazil does not want to become an exporter of crude oil. No. We want to be a country that exports oil byproducts – more gasoline, high-quality oil – and to strengthen the petrochemical industry.
Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
We’ve advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America… What’s needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.
When President Kirchner complains, I often sympathise with him, because Argentina was deindustrialised, and it is perfectly normal for the president of a country to try to get industry back.
You’re going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.
Brazil is a country that has rich people, as you have in New York City, as you have in Berlin or in London. But we also have poor people like in Bangladesh or in African suburbs.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace – lasting peace – cannot be secured without the support of all.
Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration – the integration of speeches – but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.
