It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

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

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

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

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

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.