Quotes from Jair Bolsonaro

We want democracy and peace.

We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest, and create jobs.

It doesn't matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We're all equal... We can't take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.

I would like to have had that experience of combat. I would have liked to.

If I were racist, I wouldn't be so crazy as to declare it on television.

I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.

We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

Let's be proud of our homeland once again!

It's these leftwing people, who always put themselves above the rest, who are fascists.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

We are going to unite this people. We will unite whites and blacks, homosexuals and heterosexuals... We will unite bosses and employees, and we won't plant the seed of discord between them.

We will do business with the Chinese - but we will not hand our territory over to anybody!

You do not negotiate with terrorists.

No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

We are taking over a completely broken Brazil. We've never had such a major ethical, moral, and economic crisis, and we want to get out of this quagmire.

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.

This idea of, oh, poor little black person, oh, poor little poor person, oh, poor little woman, oh, poor little indigenous person - everybody's a poor little something! I don't try and please everybody.

Good citizens deserve the means to defend themselves.

Those who didn't vote for me don't need to worry - they won't be persecuted.