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 am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

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

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

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?

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