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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken."

"Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally."

"I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man."

"In my opinion, Obama can become one of the biggest frustrations in the history for many people, not for me, but for the people of the United States that voted for him and saw him as a symbol of hope for change."

"Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?"