Venezuelans Quotes

• Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Venezuela, Regimes, Endure

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

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• There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, People, Waiting

  "Venezuelan election officials: Chavez re-elected as president, defeats Capriles". www.cnn.com. October 7, 2012.

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• How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, Rights, Iran

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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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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• Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Fighting, Judging, People

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• The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Fundamentals, Problem, Judicial System

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• A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  People, Giving, Outcomes

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

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• We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many of us love baseball. This is a great place to look for talent.

  Johan Santana

  Baseball, America, People

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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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• What's the use of saying we're better at baseball than this country? We all play together. I'm playing with Venezuelans and Dominicans right now. We all play together, so what's up with saying our country is better than your country? It's stupid. I don't like it.

  Torii Hunter

  Baseball, Country, Stupid

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• The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Government, Benefits, Revolution

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

  Mariah Carey

  Mother, Father, Black

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• I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  President, Messages, Division

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• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  Harry Belafonte

  Usa, Generosity, United States

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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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• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, Loss, Aggravation

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• We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Rights, Government, Practice

  "Venezuelan Democracy Gets Its Day In Court" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Fighting, Government

  Source: guevaristas.org

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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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• We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the - the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That's why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure.

  Mitt Romney

  Technology, America, Energy

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• Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

  Hugo Chavez

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  "Aló Presidente" (English: "Hello Mr. President") with Hugo Chavez, October 2, 2005.

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• This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

  Stephen Colbert

  America, Giving, Mexican

  "Colbert in Congress: Politics - or self-parody?". www.nbcnews.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Jobs, Fall, Tired

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• A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Simple, Leprosy

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 171, 1951.

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