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" 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. "
Hugo Chavez
Country
Will
Over
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" 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. "
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" I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger. "
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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. "
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" We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism. "
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" 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. "
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" I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy. "
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John
Learned
" They do not walk in... the path of Christ. "
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Christ
Walk
" What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. "
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Country
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" I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger. "
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Children
Cry
Love
" We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way! "
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Kind
You
" 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. "
Hugo Chavez
People
Struggle
Hope
" 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
" I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. "
Hugo Chavez
I Wish
Wish
Country
" 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 remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute. "
Hugo Chavez
Minute
How
Remember
" 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. "
Hugo Chavez
Technology
Friend
People
" 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? "
Hugo Chavez
War
World
America
" 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
" The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented. "
Hugo Chavez
Destroy
Resolution
Right
" 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. "
Hugo Chavez
World
Money
Enough
" The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures. "
Hugo Chavez
Difference
Political
Improve
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Hugo Chavez
World
Love
Man
" Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children. "
Hugo Chavez
Complete
Women
Children
" 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
" Capitalism is destroying the world. "
Hugo Chavez
Capitalism
World
Destroying
" 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
" I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. "
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Painter
Painted
Wanted
" 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. "
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Life
Oil
Planet