Chavez Quotations

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy.

The possibility we'll have another Chavez acolyte in Peru represents a serious challenge to the economic model and a threat to democracy.

The personal attacks on the president and the condemnations of America by Hugo Chavez from Venezuela, I think, are completely unjustified and uncalled for, ... Chavez is a difficult person with whom to deal personally. I know from my own experience.

Until now everything has depended on Mexico, they took the initiative to attack President Chavez and President Kirchner and then the decision to move the ambassadors,

With Tiger and coach Chavez gone, (people thought) that we couldn't do it. We did a good job.

This puts in its place the argument the U.S. government has tried to use against Chavez that he meddles in the affairs of other countries,

Somebody like Chavez sees China as the counterpart to the U.S.. They see it as a way to diversify their sources of influence.

Mr. Chavez has fed off the people's rage, and it is dangerous to perceive him as a vindicator rather than as a president,

One person can change history, ... Nobody in the liberal press or any kind of press watches CBN, so it could've gone completely unnoticed. But I'm a Chavez fan.

More than any other leader, he is shaping the agenda and setting the terms of debate in the region. Chavez has the initiative, he's on the offensive, and everyone else is reacting to what he says and does.

My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.

If Chavez would only act according to what he says, then we'd have an environmentalist Venezuela.

Fox and Chavez are both serving important domestic political purposes for each other.

It appears to us that Chavez did not intentionally speak about Jews. I don't think we should raise the flag of anti-semitism when it doesn't belong.

It is a little bit worse than last year. Cesar Chavez is going to be a challenge in league, and obviously Union is again too. We have some tough games left in this tournament.

Latino media, both print and broadcast, have played an important role (in bringing people out), especially when you consider that there is no single leader like a Cesar Chavez or Martin Luther King Jr. of this movement.

Please - let's not talk about Chavez any more! He is in every conversation in Venezuela, and I am sick of it!

President Chavez is free to travel the world, ... This is a sovereign act by a chief of state of a sovereign nation.

While broadcast reporters worried about dangers of foreign firms running American ports, they paid no attention to Chavez and his latest threats to cut off oil to the United States.

There are other social factors in Bolivia that are pressing (Morales) to take more rapid action. The relationship that he is building with Chavez and Castro is also forcing him to act with more speed.

When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up, ... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh).

There is a danger of Morales becoming more closely tied to both Chavez and Castro. The danger is there, but it's not inevitable.

Whenever Chavez feels threatened, he plays up the nationalist card. In the past seven years, whenever he feels that his message hasn't delivered the expected results, he uses the nationalism.

We, as part of a democratic opposition movement, are not planning to kill Chavez or topple the government.

To be frank, it doesn't surprise me. Chavez is a case apart; but if you look at the finance ministers -- Chile, Uruguay, Brazil -- all of them would please Milton Friedman with their fiscal discipline and their closing down of debts. And even those on the left stress 'effectiveness' as the model. It shows that the old labels don't have a lot of meaning in the present context.

It would have been a different story if Chavez pitches. That kid is tough.

These conflicting messages reflect a lack of clarity and coherence. When (Venezuelan President Hugo) Chavez speaks, they react. There is no strategy of thinking longer-term and in more strategic terms.

The students have said, 'We want this campus to reflect us, who we are,' ... You are doing what Cesar Chavez would want you to do: Dream, and make that dream come true.

Poverty in Venezuela is worse than ever. I didn't discover poverty because Chavez pointed it out to me.

People recognize that it would be problematic for Chavez to be in the nuclear business.

Now, Chavez and his backers can do what they want. Congress used to serve as a check, and that's not going to be the case.

As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controlled by Venezuela's anti-American despot Hugo Chavez has become a real danger. But it's a danger the networks barely even mention.

The Bush Administration calls President Chavez a threat. I agree- he is a threat. A threat to poverty, illiteracy and injustice.

As long as he's not going to go meet with President Chavez personally, I'm very comfortable with the arrangement.

The way Robertson's declarations will play in Latin America is that Chavez is right and that the U.S. is out to get him.

A lot of intellectuals, middle class and upper class, have been egging him on to run against Chavez. He is one of the few visible figures who has some clout, and he hasn't been afraid to challenge Chavez in the past.

They really deserved asylum. The conditions that Chavez is subjecting people to - he's torturing people. There's one person to blame for all of this, and it's Hugo Chavez.

It might be a little more difficult to get (Quintero) a whole lot of playing time, ... Chavez has had playoff experience, and he's caught our whole staff more than Quintero.

For Chavez, Fox is a surrogate of the United States in Latin America. For Fox, coming on against Chavez is low-cost, since he's in his last year (in office), weakened at home ... . Standing firm on anything offers him possible gains.

For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

It looks like we are headed for a collision. Chavez realizes that the U.S. doesn't have an idea of how to deal with him.

The international market sees the advance of Chavez as very negative. It is very clear that the shares in which foreigners had a high stake fell because they came out and sold due to fear of Chavez.

Inflammatory statements such as those attributed to President Chavez are not helpful in advancing the dialogue between the government of Venezuela and the opposition.

I had no doubt. See, a 60 percent Chavez can beat 90 percent of the guys out there. He's a phenomenal fighter. What can I say? It's Julio Cesar Chavez.

I'll be curious to see myself because on Tuesday, that wasn't the same club. They got it together the last couple of days. They're playing very well, but for whatever reason, when (Eric) Chavez came back yesterday it seemed to give them a little lift.

I'm as proud to see Freddy Garcia pitching in the World Series as I am to see Raul Chavez playing in the World Series,

Chavez went to the poorest congressional district in the nation's richest city, and people on the street there just went crazy. A lot of people told me they were really mesmerized by him. He made quite an impression.

Chavez likes to poke the U.S., ... And he's been aligning himself with folks like Fidel Castro.

Chavez is rolling in oil money, which is making him bolder,

Chavez is riding high on anti-American sentiment, not just in Latin America but across the world. For some he is a model for the future.

Chavez is a very strong proponent of OPEC and OPEC policies, so we will have a very united OPEC with Chavez in power.

Chavez is an athletic player with excellent defensive skills in all three outfield positions. He gives us another outfield option as we approach spring training.

Chavez is a hawk on oil prices and always has been. His hold on power is getting increasingly tenuous. This is very negative for intermediate oil prices -- OPEC could lose its principal hawk.

Chavez is a good pitcher and it was a big boost for us to get him out of there.

Chavez hasn't reached his financial limit, but he is nearing it.

Chavez has done a good job in the past and so has Quintero. He came down with a couple of strains, and he came down with appendicitis, which was a terrible thing to go through, but he's healthy now and having a good spring. Hector didn't play winter ball, but he's looked fundamentally sound.

Chavez has created a society controlled by fear. A fear of crime, a fear of the police, a fear of property being seized, a fear of corruption.

Chavez has an inflated sense of importance because he's had an unbroken series of successes. The only thing that can slow him down would be a dramatic drop in the price of oil.

If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

The Ed Chavez era just started. I think you're going to see a different show in 2006.

The market has been depressed, and has already discounted a Chavez victory. I don't know who was surprised by the reports and this was not a reason for anyone to sell. But the market is very weak and is very open to manipulation.

The Latin American populists like Chavez have a very limited capacity to do anything that threatens substantial harm to our interests, so it's key in those cases not to overreact.

The main issue to watch is who is likely to emerge stronger and prevail in terms of overall influence and leadership in the region, be it Chavez or be it Bush.