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.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

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

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.

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.

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

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.