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" 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
Kid
Tree
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" We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries. "
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" I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States. "
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" 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. "
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" I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Country
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" Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels. "
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Dictators
Even
" Capitalism is destroying the world. "
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World
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" 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. "
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Hope
" 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. "
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Fear
Time
" 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. "
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See
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" 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. "
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Community
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" I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda. "
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Me
Propaganda
Through
" Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children. "
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Children
" I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either. "
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Her
Either
" The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world. "
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" Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil. "
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" Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy. "
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" 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. "
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" It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic. "
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" The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. "
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" We're not perfect, but we do have democracy. "
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" 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? "
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Wind
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" 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. "
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Architecture
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