Best Hugo Chavez Quotes

#1. For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

Daniel Alarcon

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

Hugo Chavez

#3. 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

#4. Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

Hugo Chavez

#5. It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.

Hugo Chavez

#6. 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.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

#8. Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

Hugo Chavez

#9. 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

#10. I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,

Hugo Chavez

#11. 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.

Hugo Chavez

#12. In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

Hugo Chavez

#13. That man, the king of vacations ... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how ... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

#16. 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.

Hugo Chavez

#17. 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

#18. Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Christopher Hitchens

#19. I haven't any thirst for revenge.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

#22. 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.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

#24. 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

#25. 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.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

#27. I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C.

Sean Hannity

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

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez