The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

If someone is responsible, it's me.

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

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.