I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

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

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

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.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

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.