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.

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

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.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].