Hugo Chavez Quotes

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Hugo Chavez

Profession : Statesman

Birth : July 28, 1954

Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.

Hugo Chavez

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

Hugo Chavez

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

Hugo Chavez

I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil.

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Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.

Hugo Chavez

There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?

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I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

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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.

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What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!

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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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Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.

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I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

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In my opinion, Obama can become one of the biggest frustrations in the history for many people, not for me, but for the people of the United States that voted for him and saw him as a symbol of hope for change.

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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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I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go.

Hugo Chavez

The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.

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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?

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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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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

Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children.

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