"I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda."

"The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have."

"I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil."

"I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion."

"Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy."

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

"Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman."

"I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy."

"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."

"As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated."

"The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless."

"Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt."

"The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented."

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

"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."

"I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ."

"My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies."

"Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role."

"It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic."

"I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger."

"I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States."

"I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace."

"Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels."

"The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world."

"The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet."

"What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil."

"I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang."

"Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony."

"I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions."

"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity."

"I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute."

"An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell."

"Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard."

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it"

"When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, / He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; / An' what he thought 'e might require, / 'E went an' took - the same as me!"

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors"

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble"

"You just don't know how to use the English language."

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

"For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done."

"`Confound Romance!' . . . And all unseen / Romance brought up the nine-fifteen."

"We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints"

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

"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."

"They do not walk in... the path of Christ."

"I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell."

"The capitalist model, the developed model, the consumer model which comes from the North, which it has forced on the world, is falling apart on Earth, and there is no planet nearby that we can emigrate to."

"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."

"I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go."

"Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people."