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

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

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.

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.

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.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.