Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

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.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

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'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.