If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

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.

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

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

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.