Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

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.

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

The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.