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" I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States. "
Hugo Chavez
Wish
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Government
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" Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America. "
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" 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? "
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" I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy. "
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John
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. "
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Planet
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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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World
American
Dictatorship
" 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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Percent
Insignificant
Must
" 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. "
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Peace
Respect
Father
" 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. "
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Country
Dream
Baseball
" Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism. "
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Capitalism
Racism
Imperialism
" Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil. "
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Oil
Venezuela
United States
" 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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Right
Government
Talk
" 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
Me
God
Christian
" 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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Capitalism
Back
Right
" 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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Energy
Life
Research
" 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
" 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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Congress
Lie
Said
" 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. "
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Fox
Sad
Puppy
" Long live the Unity of Latin America. "
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Live
Long
Unity
" 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. "
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Enemy
Washington
Said
" I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace. "
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Peace
World
Achieve
" Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels. "
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Gorgeous
Dictators
Even
" I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger. "
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Love
Injustice
Children
" 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. "
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Beautiful
Dress
Revolution
" 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. "
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Years
Year
Road
" 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. "
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People
Health
Medical
" 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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Standing
See
World
" 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? "
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Who
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