Top 100 Quotes About Chavez
#1. I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.
Nicolas Maduro
#2. 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
#3. Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.
Sergio Martinez
#4. I really admired Cesar Chavez and Gandhi, but my form of activism would have to be the written word, not the empty stomach. My parents had brought my family t the United States because of the fear of empty stomachs.
Josefina Lopez
#5. I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
Lance Burton
#6. I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy.
Nicolas Maduro
#7. 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
#8. I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
Cindy Sheehan
#9. We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.
Mark Falcoff
#10. Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.
Don King
#11. The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.
Leopoldo Lopez
#12. And last there was a woman with loads of strawberry blonde curls who looked like a fairy princess. Her name was Sadie Chavez.
Kristen Ashley
#13. Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.
Tom Clancy
#14. The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.
Thomas Perez
#15. My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.
Rob Lowe
#17. One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
Cindy Sheehan
#18. Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
Jose Saramago
#19. I got toe-to-toe with him and yelled in his face, "Leave me and my Dad alone, Eddie Chavez!" Eddie leaned into me, so close he was all I could see. Quietly, he asked, "Is it wrong that I want to kiss you right now?
Kristen Ashley
#20. I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
Cindy Sheehan
#21. The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.
Nicolas Maduro
#22. Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
J. D. Hayworth
#23. They're going to need a DNA test to identify him after the fight (Chavez Jr.)
Sergio Martinez
#24. Hector? You call him Hector?"
"Well, I can hardly call out, 'Agent Chavez, oo Agent Chavez,' When he makes me climax, now can I?
Kristen Ashley
#25. We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.
Jorge Ramos
#26. What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
Oliver Stone
#27. I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
Sean Penn
#28. Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
Cesar Chavez
Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
Cesar Chavez
#29. If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.
Pat Robertson
#30. The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
Christine Pelosi
#31. Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.
Mitt Romney
#32. Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.
John Catsimatidis
#33. I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
Carlos Santana
#34. My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
Caitlin Flanagan
#35. Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it's drug trafficking. For Hugo, it's terrorism. Evo Morales, drug trafficking. Hugo Chavez, terrorism.
Evo Morales
#36. I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.
Steven Bauer
#37. 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
#38. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
Cesar Chavez
#39. Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
Cesar Chavez
#40. For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
Hugo Chavez
#41. I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Hugo Chavez
#42. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
Anna Maria Chavez
#43. I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
Hugo Chavez
#44. To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Cesar Chavez
#45. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
Cesar Chavez
#46. We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
#47. If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
Cesar Chavez
#48. When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
Cesar Chavez
#49. I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.
Cesar Chavez
#50. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
Cesar Chavez
#51. I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against ... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
Dennis Chavez
#52. The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
Hugo Chavez
#53. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
Anna Maria Chavez
#54. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
Cesar Chavez
#55. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
Cesar Chavez
#56. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
Denise Chavez
#57. Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.
Cesar Chavez
#58. We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
Cesar Chavez
#59. Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez
#60. True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
Cesar Chavez
#61. Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
Cesar Chavez
#66. What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
Hugo Chavez
#67. We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them
exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.
Cesar Chavez
#68. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
Cesar Chavez
#69. What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.
Anna Maria Chavez
#70. 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
#71. Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chavez
#72. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian ... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
Hugo Chavez
#73. We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.
Cesar Chavez
#75. Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.
Anna Maria Chavez
#76. We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.
Cesar Chavez
#78. When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.
Cesar Chavez
#79. Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
Cesar Chavez
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Linda Chavez
#83. The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.
Hugo Chavez
#84. Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
Linda Chavez
#85. We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
Hugo Chavez
#86. 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
#87. Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
Cesar Chavez
#88. 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
#89. The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
Cesar Chavez
#90. When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
Cesar Chavez
#91. 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
#92. Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
Linda Chavez
#93. 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
#94. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.
Cesar Chavez
#95. Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
Cesar Chavez
#96. 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
#97. In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
Cesar Chavez
#98. If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
Cesar Chavez
#99. 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
#100. The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
Linda Chavez
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