1.
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
Leopoldo Lopez
2.
But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
Vincente Minnelli
4.
We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.
Jeff Sessions
5.
My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!
Paz Vega
6.
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
Hugo Chavez
7.
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.
Rory Carroll
8.
One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
Cindy Sheehan
9.
Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.
Sean Penn
10.
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.
Hugo Chavez
11.
Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.
Gustavo Dudamel
12.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
Hugo Chavez
13.
Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.
Anthony Bourdain
14.
I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.
Jo Nesbo
15.
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
16.
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
Oliver Stone