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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.

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.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

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

The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.

Don't let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

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

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

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

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

There is no turning back.

This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

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

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

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

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

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

The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

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

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

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

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

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

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

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

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

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.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

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.

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

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

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

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

Venezuela has changed forever.

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,

Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.

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