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" Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy. "
Hugo Chavez
Master
Ideology
Me
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" 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
Capitalism
Back
Right
" I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. "
Hugo Chavez
American
Planet
Empire
" 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
Security
Government
Truth Is
" 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
Forever
Cynical
" 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
Planet
World
Falling
" 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
Me
I Am
Believe
" We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. "
Hugo Chavez
Elite
Destroyed
Privileged
" 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
He
Over
Soldiers
" 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
Security
Peace
" 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
Long
Been
" Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels. "
Hugo Chavez
Gorgeous
Dictators
Even
" 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
Argentina
American
Support
" The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world. "
Hugo Chavez
World
Understanding
Peace
" 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
Me
Propaganda
Through
" Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism. "
Hugo Chavez
Capitalism
Racism
Imperialism
" Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children. "
Hugo Chavez
Complete
Women
Children
" 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
Peace
Respect
Father
" I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil. "
Hugo Chavez
Much
Less
Show
" I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either. "
Hugo Chavez
Love
Her
Either
" I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings. "
Hugo Chavez
Years
Injustice
Human
" 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
Matter
Fact
Doubt
" 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
History
Independence
Leader
" I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. "
Hugo Chavez
I Wish
Wish
Country
" 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
People
Health
Medical
" 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
Enemy
Washington
Said
" 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
" 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
Differences
Want
World
" 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
Life
Oil
Planet
" The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless. "
Hugo Chavez
World
Born
War
" 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
Fox
Sad
Puppy