Hugo Chavez Quotes

When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa.

- Hugo Chavez

Africa, Discovered, However, Spain

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

- Hugo Chavez

World, Worthless, System, Collapsed

One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.

- Hugo Chavez

Against, Christ, Established, Rebel

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

- Hugo Chavez

Love, Corn, Your, Daughters

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!

- Hugo Chavez

Kings, Indians, Tyrant, Cultured

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?

- Hugo Chavez

Might, Aristotle, Bombs, Marines

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

- Hugo Chavez

Through, Which, Became, Initially

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Rock And Roll, Internal, Asian

Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.

- Hugo Chavez

Country, Give, Thorns, Bleed

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Palm, Very, South, Plains

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

- Hugo Chavez

Planet, Accuse, North, North American

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Morals, About, Mr, Shameless

Venezuela has the largest oil reserve, and Venezuela has to defend itself.

- Hugo Chavez

Oil, Largest, Itself, Reserve

The U.S. only has 20 billion barrels of oil in reserve. It seems as though there is no more oil around. Venezuela has 300 billion barrels of oil in reserves. Iraq has, like, 150 billion barrels of oil. Iran, close to 300 billion barrels of reserve. Oil for 200 years, of course.

- Hugo Chavez

More, Like, Though, Reserve

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Doing, Here, Allow, Consolidated

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Book, Spain, Had, Sham

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Believe, One Day, Castro, Gospels

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?

- Hugo Chavez

Through, United, Hundred, Latin

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

- Hugo Chavez

United, About, Free Markets, Latin

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.

- Hugo Chavez

United, United States, Impunity

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Brazil, Other, League, Argentina

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Save, Lives, Reduced, Enough Money

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.

- Hugo Chavez

New, Year, Amount, Infernal

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

- Hugo Chavez

Injustice, Against, Been, Exploitation

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Want, Based, Large, Kingdoms

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

- Hugo Chavez

Through, Propaganda, Bin, Filter

Venezuela has changed forever.

- Hugo Chavez

Forever, Venezuela, Changed

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

- Hugo Chavez

People, Could, Defended, Venezuela

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Independent, Been, Venezuela

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Leader, Karl Marx, Led, Venezuela

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.

- Hugo Chavez

United States, Hundred, Coup, Hundred Years

Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil.

- Hugo Chavez

Oil, United States, Tens, Supporting

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Broken, Been, United States, Impulse

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

- Hugo Chavez

New, Normal, United States, Relations

The capitalist model, the developed model, the consumer model which comes from the North, which it has forced on the world, is falling apart on Earth, and there is no planet nearby that we can emigrate to.

- Hugo Chavez

Falling, Capitalist, Which, Consumer

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

- Hugo Chavez

Through, Here, Within, Dictatorship

I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

- Hugo Chavez

Thought, Through, Here, Dictatorship

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Express, Weapon, Ideological, Struggle

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.

- Hugo Chavez

United States, Symbol, Frustrations

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?

- Hugo Chavez

Flag, Film, Really, Wind

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

- Hugo Chavez

Planet, However, Reduce, Economic

Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.

- Hugo Chavez

Voice, Independent, Our, International

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Health, Medical, Mistake, International

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

- Hugo Chavez

Think, Waste, I Think, So-Called

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

- Hugo Chavez

Searching, Very, Sources, Transition

The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era.

- Hugo Chavez

United, United States, Very, Transition

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

- Hugo Chavez

I Am, Will, Held, Resigned

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

- Hugo Chavez

Country, Over, Colony, Venezuela

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

- Hugo Chavez

Insignificant, Reduce, Venezuela

There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002.

- Hugo Chavez

Whatsoever, Mr, Bush, Venezuela

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Like, Makes, Lets, Mexicans

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

- Hugo Chavez

Racism, Capitalism, Very, Imperialism

I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.

- Hugo Chavez

Like, Still, Ostrich, Imperialism

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

- Hugo Chavez

Country, United States, Imperialist

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

- Hugo Chavez

Great, Will, Very, Imperialist

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.

- Hugo Chavez

People, Over, Standing Up, Imperialist

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

- Hugo Chavez

Teacher, Been, Castro, Strategy

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

- Hugo Chavez

Lie, Jewish, Congress, Anti-Semitic

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

- Hugo Chavez

Insurance, Country, Other, Worried

The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

- Hugo Chavez

Other, United, United States, Worried

The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.

- Hugo Chavez

Country, United, Visiting, George W

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Jesus Christ, Christ, Very, Catholic

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

- Hugo Chavez

Very, Priest, Am, Catholic

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

- Hugo Chavez

Mother, Inculcated, Were, Studies

Capitalism is destroying the world.

- Hugo Chavez

World, Capitalism, Destroying

I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.

- Hugo Chavez

Love, Loved, Either, None

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Rest, Laws, Cut, Entirely

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

- Hugo Chavez

Unity, Long, Latin America, Latin

Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role.

- Hugo Chavez

Play, Idiot, Role, Insipid

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Right, Back, Which, Socialism

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

- Hugo Chavez

Path, New, Better, Socialism

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

- Hugo Chavez

Remember, I Remember, How, President

The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.

- Hugo Chavez

Alliance, Social, Proposal, Conditions

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

- Hugo Chavez

Corn, Countryside, Made, Planting

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

- Hugo Chavez

Interest, Socialist, Even, Dictators

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!

- Hugo Chavez

Big, Import, Tendency, Dollar

Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.

- Hugo Chavez

Woman, Dress, Paint, Sword

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Love, Injustice, Christ, I Believe In

Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.

- Hugo Chavez

Driving, Reform, Kennedy, Driving Force

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Ethics, Believe, Our, Topic

Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children.

- Hugo Chavez

Children, Cities, Baghdad, Complete

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

- Hugo Chavez

Love, Injustice, Christ, Hunger

Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.

- Hugo Chavez

Good, Knew, Personally, Revolutionary

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

- Hugo Chavez

Appreciate, Learned, Kennedy, None

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

- Hugo Chavez

World, Destroyed, Privileged, Elite

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

- Hugo Chavez

Country, Governing, Elite

Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he brought them here. He brought them to Peru and Carabobo, and he worked together with the troops of San Martin to liberate this continent. That is Simon Bolivar.

- Hugo Chavez

Here, Continent, Brought, Liberate

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Leader, Land, Social, Simon

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

- Hugo Chavez

Development, Want, Brothers, Simon

The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.

- Hugo Chavez

Play, Role, Major Role, Solve

There is no turning back.

- Hugo Chavez

Back, No Turning Back, Turning

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

- Hugo Chavez

Mutual, Mutual Respect, Takes

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Hell, New, Am, Leads

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

- Hugo Chavez

Painter, Wanted, Painted, Sang

I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil.

- Hugo Chavez

World, Going, Show, Devil

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

- Hugo Chavez

Christian, World, Achieve, Justice

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

- Hugo Chavez

Not Perfect, Perfect, Democracy

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.

- Hugo Chavez

Problem, United States, Oil

The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

- Hugo Chavez

Leader, World, Needs, Understanding

This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.

- Hugo Chavez

Great, People, Been, Victory

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

- Hugo Chavez

Walk, Christ, Path

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