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" 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. "

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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. "

Hugo Chavez

History

Independence

Leader

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

I Am

Believe

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no turning back. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "