This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.

Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.

This is something that is historic for us. We are going to work very hard.

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.

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Consumerism on an irrational capitalist model.

The world will have to get used to a barrel of oil priced above 50 dollars, ... It will be difficult to increase production.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.