Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

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

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

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

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.