I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.