Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

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

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

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

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

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

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.

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

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