Venezuela has changed forever.

- Hugo Chavez

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.

- Hugo Chavez

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

- Hugo Chavez

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

- Hugo Chavez

This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.

- Hugo Chavez

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 It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.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

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

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

- 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

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

- Hugo Chavez

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

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

- 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

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

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

- Hugo Chavez

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

- Hugo Chavez

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

- Hugo Chavez

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

- 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

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

- Hugo Chavez