Jair Bolsonaro Quotes

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We are not here to erase nationalities and overrule sovereignty in the name of an abstract "global interest". This is not the Global Interest Organization! This is the United Nations Organization. And so it must remain!

Jair Bolsonaro
It is difficult to be president of Brazil because it is a president that has less authority. I am fulfilling a mission from God.

Jair Bolsonaro
Most of the foreign press has a completely distorted image of who I am and what I intend to do here with our policies and for the future of our Brazil. I perfectly understand the level of the poisoning that is done to Brazil by the foreign press.

Jair Bolsonaro
I am in favor of a dictatorship. We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.

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Indigenous people don't lobby, don't speak our language, and yet today they manage to have 14 percent of our national territory [...] One of their intentions is to hold us back.

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Through the vote you will not change anything in this country, right? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You will only change, unfortunately, on the day when we begin a civil war here inside.
In 1999

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We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest and create job.

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Today, the country barely grows by 1 percent a year. Inflation is intolerable. Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

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Safety is our priority! It is urgent! People need jobs, they want education, but it's no use if they continue to be robbed on the way to their jobs.

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Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.

Jair Bolsonaro
Every honest citizen, man or woman, if they want to have a weapon in their homes.

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My country has been on the verge of socialism, which has put us in a state of widespread corruption, serious economic recession, high criminality rates and unending attacks on the family and religious values that underpin our traditions.

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Brazil is safer and more welcoming today. We have just extended visa exemptions to countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and Canada, and we are currently considering the adoption of similar measures for China and India, among others. With more safety and convenience, we want everyone to be able to visit Brazil, and particularly our Amazon rainforest, with all its vastness and natural beauty. The Amazon is not being destroyed nor consumed by fire, as the media is falsely portraying. Each one of you may check what I am saying. Do not hesitate to visit Brazil. It is way different than the country portrayed in many newspapers and television shows.

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The views of an indigenous leader does not represent that of all the Brazilian indigenous population. Often some of these leaders are used as a ploy by foreign governments in their information warfare to advance their interests in the Amazon.

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A few decades ago they tried to change the Brazilian regime and that of other Latin American countries. They have been defeated! Brazilian civilians and military were killed and many others had their reputation destroyed, but we won that war and safeguarded our liberty.

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We cannot accept that a President, Macron, issues inappropriate and gratuitous attacks against the Amazon, nor that he disguises his intentions behind an 'alliance' of the G-7 countries to 'save' the Amazon, as if it were a colony or no man's land.
About the G-7 donation of $22.2 million to help fight the fires in the Amazon

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We cannot allow Venezuela to become a new Cuba or North Korea.

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We're all migrants in Brazil, but we can't fling our doors open wide for everybody to just come. [...] We can't tolerate certain types of people coming to Brazil and disrespecting our culture and our religion.

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Hungary is a country that has suffered a lot with communism in the past, a people that knows what dictatorship is. The Brazilian people still do not know what dictatorship is, do not know what it is to suffer at the hands of these people.

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Democracy and liberty only exist when your armed forces want them to.

Jair Bolsonaro
We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America.

Jair Bolsonaro