Hugo Chávez citations

„Si le climat était une banque, les pays riches l'auraient déjà sauvé.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Nous sommes à un moment existentiel de la vie vénézuélienne. Nous avançons vers le socialisme, et rien ni personne ne pourra l'empêcher.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Le capitalisme est une machine infernale qui produit chaque minute une quantité impressionnante de pauvres.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Nous voulons des idées pour sauver notre planète, pour sauver la planète de la menace impérialiste. Et espérons que dans ce siècle-même, dans pas trop longtemps, nous verrons cette nouvelle ère. Et pour nos enfants et nos petits-enfants, un monde de paix basé sur les principes fondamentaux des Nations-Unies, mais de Nations-Unies rénovées. Et peut-être devrons-nous déménager leur siège. Peut-être devons nous le mettre ailleurs; peut-être dans une ville du Sud. Nous avons proposé le Venezuela.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Comme Chomsky le dit [dans son livre] de façon claire et détaillée, l’empire américain fait tout ce qu’il peut pour consolider son système de domination. Et nous ne pouvons pas lui permettre de faire cela. Nous ne pouvons autoriser que la dictature mondiale se consolide. La déclaration du dépositaire du monde — cynique, hypocrite, emplie de cette hypocrisie impérialiste provenant de leur besoin de tout contrôler.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Jusqu’à quand allons-nous permettre de telles injustices et inégalité? Jusqu’à quand allons-nous tolérer l’actuel ordre économique international et les mécanismes de marché en vigueur?“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Au-delà et au-dessus de tout cela, je pense que nous avons des raisons d’être optimistes. Un poète aurait dit « désespérément optimistes », parce qu’au-dessus et au-delà des guerres et des bombes et de la guerre agressive et préventive et la destruction de peuples entiers, on peut voir qu’une nouvelle ère se dessine.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„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 Chávez

2011

„When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. “

—  Hugo Chávez

„I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.“

—  Hugo Chávez

„Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.“

—  Hugo Chávez

Speech to a May 2009 "Socialist Transformation Workshop" in Guayana, as quoted in Venezuela Nationalizes Gas Plant and Steel Companies, Pledges Worker Control: James Suggett at Venezuela Analysis (22 May 2009) http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4464
2009

„You messed up with me, birdie. No? You don't know much about history. You don't know much about anything, you know? A great ignorance is what you've got. You are ignorant, Mr. Danger. You are an ignorant. You are a donkey, Mr. Danger … By that I mean, you know, to say it with all its letters, to Mr. George W. Bush. You are a donkey, Mr. Bush. I'm going to tell you something, Mr. Danger. You are a coward, you know? You are a coward. Why don't you go to Iraq and command your army? It's so easy to command an army from afar. If you ever come up with the crazy idea of invading Venezuela, I'll be waiting for you in this savanna, Mr. Danger. Come on here, Mr. Danger. Come on here. Come on here, Mr. Danger. Coward, assassin, genocidal… Genocidal, you are a genocidal. You are an alcoholic, a drunk.. A drunk, Mr. Danger. You are immoral, Mr. Danger… You are the worst ever, Mr. Danger … The worst of this planet, the very worst is called George W. Bush. God save the world from this menace. Because he is an assassin. A sick man, a psychologically ill man, I know it. Personally, he is a coward. But he has a lot of power. He has a lot of power. And look at what's happening in Iraq. Yesterday the world marched against the war… 70%, according to the surveys I've seen, of your own people, Mr. Danger, are against you, against the war. You are a liar, Mr. Danger. You are killing children, Mr. Danger, who aren't responsible for your illnesses, of your complexes. Your soldiers in Iraq are bombing cities. Just yesterday we were watching images of five children who were murdered by you soldiers. They're not the murderers. You are the murderer, coward!“

—  Hugo Chávez

Message to George W. Bush, in a nationally televised speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2_lJbIyzT64 in March 2006.
2006

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

—  Hugo Chávez

Chavez told Hillary Clinton in a televised speech on December 9, 2010 http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46373
2010

„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 Chávez

In protest of Israel's military offensive in Lebanon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5258722.stm
2006

„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 Chávez

Speech at the U.N, welcoming the Obama administration. (September 2009) BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20712033
2009

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

—  Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez speaking in October 2005 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1534596/The-wisdom-of-Chavez.html
2005

„I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar's sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people. For you who, like Bolivar, are and will always be a true freedom fighter. [Mugabe] continues, alongside his people, to confront the pretensions of new imperialists.“

—  Hugo Chávez

Praising Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a freedom fighter, as quoted in "Chavez's colourful quotations" at BBC News (12 November 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7090600.stm
2004

„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.“

—  Hugo Chávez

Opening remarks at the OPEC Summit, November 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7100175.stm
2007

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

—  Hugo Chávez

Statement of 21 September 2008, as quoted in "Credit Crisis Fools Latin America's Leaders: Alexandre Marinis" at Bloomberg.com (21 October 2008) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_marinis&sid=afRmKSP9kKOU
2008