Chavez Quotes

• I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Government, America, President

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• I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

  Lance Burton

  Teacher, Growing Up, Couple

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Flags

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• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Real, Character, Eye

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• I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, President, United States

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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Pride, San Francisco

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• The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

  Christine Pelosi

  Usa, President, Spurs

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• Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Thinking, Media, Yesterday

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• Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Doctors

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• Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.

  Mitt Romney

  Doe, Cuba, Phrases

  "Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami". Beth Reinhard, The Miami Herald, March 19, 2007.

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• What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

  Jim Hightower

  Mother, Kings, People

  "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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• One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world.

  David Frum

  Venezuela, World, Modern

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

  Sean Penn

  Blessed, People, President

  "Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's Death: 'I Lost a Friend'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.

  Dolores Huerta

  Blessed, Practice, Skills

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Mother, California, Migrants

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• One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Inspiration, President, Venezuela

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• I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Hands

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• Ill be playing a priest in Chavez Cage Of Glory, which is a fight movie.

  Steven Bauer

  Fighting, Cages, Glory

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

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, People, Fiction

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• We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.

  Mark Falcoff

  Military, Latin, America

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• They're going to need a DNA test to identify him after the fight (Chavez Jr.)

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Dna

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• Julio Cesar Chavez will never be ready to fight me.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Fighter

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• I feel ashamed tonight that we treated Lennox Lewis the way we did because he gave it all his effort but everytime Don King's involved, you can expect a draw to come from somewhere. Ask Pernell Whitaker about the Julio Cesar Chavez fight...I thought Evander Holyfield gave a very game effort, but you win some and you lose some...tonight I'm upset because Lennox Lewis did not lose and it was not a draw. It's as simple as that.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Kings, Motivation, Fighting

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• The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Government, People, Fabric

  "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

  Don King

  War, Animal, Men

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