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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Long live the Unity of Latin America. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Venezuela has changed forever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "