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

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

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

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.