Hugo Chavez

I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people.

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

If we reduced the military expenses in 10 percent of the world, we would have enough money to save millions of lives in this world.

There's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.