Quotes from Hugo Chavez

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. 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.

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.

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

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

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'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.

Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role.

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

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.

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

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?

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

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.

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.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

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.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

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

There is no turning back.

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.

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.

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.