Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born October 27, 1945) is a Brazilian former trade union leader and politician, who served as President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010.

Quotes

• 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.
  • Lula da Silva (1975), Cited in: Emir Sader, ‎Ken Silverstein (1991) Without Fear of Being Happy. p. 41
  • After being advised to stay in the United States when his brother was arrested in Brazil as a communist subversive.
• I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.
  • In: Speech, August 2005, published at villagemagazine.ie

• 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.
  • "Interview transcript: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in: Financial Times, July 7, 2006

• The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.
  • "Profile: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva" in news.bbc.co.uk, October 29, 2006: About his second term as president

• 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 to break Aids drug patent", BBC News, 4 May 2007

• If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions.
  • "Brazil rejects Bush move on climate change talks" in: The Guardian, May 31, 2007.

• 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.
  • "Brazil rejects Bush move on climate change talks" in: The Guardian, May 31, 2007.

• 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.
  • At a 2009 G-20 London Summit in March 2009.
  • Financial crisis 'caused by white men with blue eyes, by Andrew Grice, The Independent, 27 March 2009

• 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." – during a speech in São Luís, the capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. After recognizing he cursed, he stated: "Of course I cursed. Tomorrow, commentators of the major newspapers will say that Lula cursed, but I'm aware that they curse more than I do everyday, and I'm aware of how the poor people of this country live.
  • "Quero tirar o povo da merda", diz Lula; watch, at folha.uol.com, 10.12.2009

• 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.
  • Testimony to the Federal Police regarding the "Lava-jato Operation" investigation.‘Não tem uma viva alma mais honesta do que eu’, afirma Lula at estadao.com.br 01.20.2016

• Americans think of themselves first, second, third, fourth, fifth – and if there’s any time left over they think about Americans
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/27/brazil-governed-by-lunatics-and-us-lackeys-says-ex-president-lula

External links

• President Bush Welcomes President Lula of Brazil to Camp David
• UU maths club