Quote

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

Hugo Chavez

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hugo Chavez
Age: 58 †
Born: 1954
Born: July 28
Died: 2013
Died: March 5
Military Officer
Politician
Statesman
Ashland
Alabama
The Commander
Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Perfect
Democracy

More quotes by Hugo Chavez

Image
I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Hugo Chavez
Image
If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Long live the Unity of Latin America.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.
Hugo Chavez
Image
What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
Hugo Chavez
Image
For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.
Hugo Chavez
Image
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I haven't any thirst for revenge.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
Hugo Chavez
Image
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
Hugo Chavez