In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.