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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Quotes

born 1945 Brazil

Brazil

Also known as: Lula

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If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions.

The world needs peace, addressing the issue of the climate, and ending hunger.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

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.

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

Brazil condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.

Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar. Why can't we do based on our own currencies? Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the disappearance of the gold standard?

Every time we talk about fighting drugs, it would possibly be easier for us to fight our own addicts internally. The users — the users are responsible for the traffickers, who are themselves victims of the users as well.

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.

Does anyone really think the US is going to favour Brazil? [...] Americans think of themselves first, second, third, fourth, fifth – and if there’s any time left over they think about Americans. And these Brazilian lackeys go around thinking the Americans will do anything for us.

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.

What we can’t have is this country being run governed by a bunch of lunatics. The country doesn’t deserve this and above all the people do not deserve this. Brazil is adrift — so far he doesn’t know what to do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.