Great Throughts Treasury

"We will wait as many days as necessary."

"Weapons for what? To fight against whom? Against the revolutionary government, that has the support of the whole people? … Weapons for what? Hiding weapons for what? To blackmail the President of the Republic? To threaten to break the peace here? To create organizations of gangsters? Is it that we are going to return to gangsterism? Is it that we will return to daily shootouts in the capital? Weapons for what?"

"Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants."

"Whatever we get will be used there for the martyrs of Katrina, be it one million (dollars), two, three or four. The money will go there without any doubt and with great satisfaction, because it will heighten the moral of our athletes."

"What kind of cosmetic solutions are we going to provide? ... The very modesty of these goals is shameful."

"We would never accept it... Even if they offered us a billion dollars, we'd refuse it."

"When I reached the concrete area, about 15 or 20 meters from the first row of chairs, I did not realize that there was a relatively high curb from the pavement to the crowd. My left foot came down into the air, because of the difference in height. The momentum, and the law of gravity discovered some time ago by Newton, caused me, when I took that false step, to plunge forward until I fell, in a fraction of a second, onto the pavement."

"Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies?"

"Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases?"

"When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me."

"You could all be there right now lending your services, but 48 hours have passed since we made this offer, and we have received absolutely no response."

"You cannot utter the word democracy, because, among other reasons, everyone in the world knows your ascent to the US presidency was a fraud."

"You cannot do this without the authorization of the father, ... I sincerely think that this boy is at risk in the hands of desperate people, and the government of the United States should not be running this risk."

"You will have free access to any place that you may wish to see, and we will not feel offended for any contact that you may wish to establish,"

"You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing."