Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Dies

'Go To Hell': Chavez In Quotes

Updated: 11:44pm UK, Tuesday 05 March 2013

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeatedly caught the headlines with his turns of phrase as he addressed his own people in his weekly TV show or spoke to the world on official engagements.

"You have a pig's tail, a pig's ears, and you snort like a pig. You are a pig."

- To opposition leader Henrique Capriles in February 2012.

"You are a donkey, Mr Danger."

- Referring to US President George Bush in his weekly television show Alo Presidente in March 2006.

"Don't mess with me, Condoleezza. Don't mess with me, girl."

- Responding to then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in February 2006, who days earlier had called Venezuela a threat to regional democracy and a "sidekick" of Iran.

"Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today."

- Speaking at the United Nations the day after President George Bush in 2006.

"The lord of war is Donald Rumsfeld, one of the dogs of the devil."

- Speaking about US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006.

"You are an imperialist pawn. ... Go straight to hell."

- Speaking about then-Prime MInister Tony Blair in 2006.

"Go to hell, Yankee *****, here stands a dignified people. Go to hell a hundred times, we are the sons of Bolivar!"

- After Venezuela expelled the US ambassador in 2008.

"You are a fraud, Obama. ... Go and ask many people in Africa, who might have believed in you because of the colour of your skin, because your father was from Africa. You are an Afro-descendant, but you are the shame of all those people."

- Speaking about US President Barack Obama in 2011.

"Give me your crown of thorns, Christ, give it to me, so that I bleed; Give me your cross, 100 crosses, and I will carry them for you. But give me life, because I still have things to do for my people and my country. Don't take me yet."

- During a mass held for his health during his cancer treatment in April 5, 2012.

"We will live and will win!"

- After being diagnosed with cancer in June 2011.

"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now."

- Accusing the CIA of spreading cancer in Latin America in 2011.

"Marisabel, I'm giving you one tonight, get ready!"

- To his wife on Valentine's Day 2000.

"I am a president held prisoner, I have not resigned."

- During a short coup against him in 2002.

"Theirs is a victory of ****."

- On the failure of a constitutional amendment in 2007.

"If God gives me life and health, I'll be with you until 2021! Hey ho, Chavez will not go!"

- Launching a move to repeal term limits for presidents in 2008.

"Christopher Columbus (the Italian-born explorer) was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity."

- Speaking about indigenous rights in 2003

"Israel criticises Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did."

- Discussing Israel during a visit to Iran in 2006

"I promise you that at least I will make an effort not to be so lengthy."

- Before giving a nine-hour speech in 2012.

Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1060592

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