Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my local trade union that projected me my political life. And if I fail, when I go back to my hometown, it's going to take another century for another worker, another member of the working class to reach the presidency, because people are going to say that the workers do not have the competency to run a country.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

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.

Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.