“We all belong here equally… Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 146

Original: (pt) Vamos analisar o direito da liberdade de expressão. Ninguém vai nos calar a boca! Não devemos a vagabundo nenhum nesse Estado e nesse País! Aqui não há censura!

Source: [1 March 2006, 31 March 2019, Cadeia Sem Censura, Web Rádio Intervalo, 1 March 2006]

2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Source: The Kite Runner

In an interview to the World Association of Newspapers for World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2004)
Context: It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the kind that means a child dies for lack of food in its belly. That should be seen as the most incredible, historic opportunity but instead it's become a millstone around our necks. We let our own pathetic excuses about how it's "difficult" justify our own inaction. Be honest. We have the science, the technology, and the wealth. What we don't have is the will, and that's not a reason that history will accept.

As quoted in response to the comment "For a miracle man, you're not very religious", in "10 questions for Lance Armstrong" by Bill Saporito in TIME magazine (28 September 2003)

A Man Without a Country (2005)

A Conversation with Martin de Maat (1998)