We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

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.