Hugo Chavez Quotes

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Hugo Chavez

Profession : Statesman

Birth : July 28, 1954

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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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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.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Hugo Chavez

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

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

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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

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.

Hugo Chavez

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez