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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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„Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.“
„From an ethical point of view the price difference is grotesque and from a political point of view, it represents a lack of respect, as though a sick Brazilian is inferior.“
„I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.“
„A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn’t think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.“
„Look, my friend. I don’t speak the language here, I’ve got no money, the food stinks, there’s no rice, no beans. I’d rather be arrested in Brazil than stay in this dump of a country.“
„If there is something which I am proud, in this country, it is that there is no living soul more honest than me. Not even in the Federal Police, not even in the Public Ministry, not even in the Catholic Church, not even in the evangelical church. There may be just as equal, but I doubt it.“
„If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions.“
„This is a crisis that was caused by people, white with blue eyes. And before the crisis they looked as if they knew everything about economics.“
„The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.“
„I want to know if the people are in the shit and I want to take the people out of the shit in which they are.“