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

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.

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.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

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

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.