I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.