What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

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.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

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

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.