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

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.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

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

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.

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.