Words matter. These are the best Hugo Chavez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.
I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country’s imperialist pretensions.
I’m a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.
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.
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
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.
The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It’s not that we are extremists. It’s that the world is waking up. It’s waking up all over, and people are standing up.
Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?
The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.
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.
The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.
The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.
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.
The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It’s worthless.
Long live the Unity of Latin America.
Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.
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.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there’s no dictatorship here.
There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?
There’s been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.
Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil.
Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support.
Venezuela has changed forever.
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.
I don’t care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people.
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.
They do not walk in… the path of Christ.
I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.
In my opinion, Obama can become one of the biggest frustrations in the history for many people, not for me, but for the people of the United States that voted for him and saw him as a symbol of hope for change.
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.
What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!
Simon Bolivar, when history led him – and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so – when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.
It’s a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian… I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have.
I’m going to show the world that I’m not a tyrant, much less a devil.
Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world – monarchies, kingdoms, large powers – we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.
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.
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
If we reduced the military expenses in 10 percent of the world, we would have enough money to save millions of lives in this world.
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar… It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic… I’m very faithful.
Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people’s revolution, the historical revolution.
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
Don’t be shameless, Mr Blair. Don’t be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticise anyone about the rules of the international community.
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserve, and Venezuela has to defend itself.
The ‘Alliance for Progress’ was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.
I’ve been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
We’re not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Fidel is a Marxist-Leninist. I am not. Fidel is an atheist. I am not. One day, we discussed God and Christ. I told Castro, I am a Christian. I believe in the Social Gospels of Christ. He doesn’t. Just doesn’t. More than once, Castro told me that Venezuela is not Cuba, and we are not in the 1960s.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
I don’t know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn’t come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.
Capitalism is destroying the world.
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.
Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.
