Hugo Chávez Short Quotes

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Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire

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I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.

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But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship — it's a revolutionary democracy.

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We see here a model social state like the one we are beginning to create.

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We have arrived again to Venezuela, Thank God. Thanks to my beloved country.

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

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

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The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat … is represented by U.S. imperialism.

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I extend from here my recognition of all who voted against us, recognition of their democratic weight.

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Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'You've got to find Chavez to kill him'.

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

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

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Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

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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.

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You should resign. It's the least you can do: Resign, along with those other spies and delinquents working in the State Department.

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Liberator of Libya, He will be remembered as a great fighter, a revolutionary and martyr. They assassinated him. It is another outrage.

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If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

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I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.

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I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. … Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

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What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

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