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William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857 – 8 March 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–1930). He also served as an associate judge on the Sixth Circuit, Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War to Theodore Roosevelt and Solicitor General. Between 1914 and 1920 he was the Kent Professor of Law at Yale University.

Quotes

 * The President so fully represents his party, which secures political power by its promise to the people, and the whole government is so identified in the minds of the people with his personality that they make him responsible for all the sins of omission and of commission of society at large. This would be ludicrous if it did not have sometimes serious results. The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the things that have happened in this way. He has no power of state legislation, which covers a very wide field and which comes in many respects much closer to the happiness of the people than the Federal Government.
 * William Howard Taft Essential Writings and Addresses. Edited by David H. Burton. Faitleigh Dickinson University Press (2009). Chapter 1: Political Analyses. Subchapter: The President and His Powers, page 149-150.

 * I am a Unitarian. I believe in God. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
 * Letter to Yale University (1899), quoted in Henry F. Pringle, William Howard Taft: The Life and Times, vol. 1, p. 45 (1939).

 * The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
 * The Farmer and the Republican Party, address in Hot Springs, Virginia (5 August 1908).

 * If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
 * Irish Humor, address in Hot Springs, Virginia (5 August 1908).

 * We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
 * Address at a banquet given by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., May 8, 1909.; found in Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 82 (1910).

 * I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
 * Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt (1 June 1909); reprinted in The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt (Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1930).

 * I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.
 * Address at the Hotel Fairmont in San Francisco (6 October 1909).

 * One of the marvelous things about him is that he is strong enough to force the men who dislike him the most to stand by him. By far he is the strongest man before the people to-day except Roosevelt. I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it.
 * On Charles Evans Hughes, in November 1909, as quoted in Taft and Roosevelt : The intimate letters of Archie Butt (1930) by Archibald Willingham Butt, p. 224; this has sometimes been paraphrased: "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

 * I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
 * Address in Pocatello, Idaho (5 October 1911).

 * The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
 * Speech to the Lotus Club (16 November 1912).

 * The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
 * "State of the Union" (3 December 1912).

 * Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
 * Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils, chapter 4, p.90 (1913).

 * Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
 * Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils, chapter 4, p.91 (1913).

 * There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach — it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
 * Speech to the Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York (20 December 1914).

 * There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.
 * Speech before the Ohio Society, Washington, D.C.; quoted in the Congressional Record (May 23, 1916), vol. 53, p. 8527.

 * Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
 * "Anti-Semitism in the United States", address to the Anti-Defamation League in Chicago, Illinois (23 December 1920).

 * It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.
 * "Adequate Machinery for Judicial Business," Journal of the American Bar Association, vol. 7, p. 454 (September 1921).

 * The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
 * Correspondence (1925), quoted in James Chace (2004), 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs

Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916)

 * The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
 * Chapter 6.

 * We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
 * Chapter 6.

 * Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
 * p. ?

 * Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.
 * P. 61.

 * The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.
 * p. ?

Attributed

 * Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
 * Quoted in Archibald W. Butt (1930), Taft and Roosevelt.

 * I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
 * Quoted in Archibald W. Butt (1930), Taft and Roosevelt.

 * Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
 * Quoted in Henry Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.

 * The publishers profess to be the agents of heaven in establishing virtue and therefore that they ought to receive some subsidy from the government. I can ask no stronger refutation to this claim … than the utterly unscrupulous methods pursued by them in seeking to influence Congress on this subject.
 * Quoted in Henry Fowles Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, referring to a postal rate increase affecting popular magazines.

 * Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
 * Quoted in Henry Fowles Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.

 * Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
 * Quoted in David G. Plotkin (1955), Dictionary of American Maxims.

 * Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
 * Quoted in David G. Plotkin (1955), Dictionary of American Maxims; the last phrase translates roughly as "Wonderfully, amazingly; remarkable to say; It's a miracle! "

 * No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
 * Quoted in Robert J. Schoenberg (1992), Mr. Capone, apparently referring to the temperance movement.

About

 * The year 1908 saw the election of the first U.S. president to successfully weigh more than three hundred pounds, William Howard Taft, who ran on a platform of reinforced concrete and who, in a stirring inauguration speech, called for "a bacon cheeseburger and a side order of fries." Another important occurrence in the Taft administration was the famous Ballinger-Pinchot affair, which is truly one of the most fascinating and bizarre episodes in the nation's history, although it is quite frankly none of your business. (Especially the part about the dwarf goat.)
 * Dave Barry, ''Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort Of History of the United States (New York: Random House, 1989), p. 95

 * One advantage possessed by Mr. Taft over Mr. Hughes is that Mr. Taft is able to cover more ground—especially when sitting down.
 * The Butte Daily Post, "Editorials" (March 28, 1908), p. 4

 * Taft was cheerful, friendly, a typical hail-fellow-well-met with an infectious chuckle. Always popular, he had many friends but, surprisingly, few intimates. "One of the astonishing things about Taft's four years in the White House," wrote biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the almost total lack of men, related or otherwise, upon whom he could lean... For the most part he faced his troubles alone." He was not happy as President. The break with his predecessor and former mentor, Theodore Roosevelt, weighed heavily on his mind; he was often irritable, depressed, at least once in tears. He regained his good spirits in retirement and as chief justice.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 393

 * In 1912 President William H. Taft declared: "The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally. " Taft said that the correct path of justice in U.S. foreign policy "may well be made to include active intervention to secure for our merchandise and our capitalists opportunity for profitable investment.
 * Eduardo Galeano Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1997)

 * A little before eight-thirty the President and Mrs. Taft and the family would come down to the private dining room for breakfast. As a rule he would eat two oranges, a twelve-ounce beefsteak, several pieces of toast and butter and a vast quantity of coffee, with cream and sugar. In looking through my diaries of this period I find that on November 27th, 1911, I have a note which reads: "The President weighs 332 pounds and tells me with a great laugh that he is going on a diet but that 'things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own.'"
 * Housekeeper Elizabeth Jaffray, Secrets of the White House (Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1926), as quoted in Famous Quotes from White House Workers, The White House Historical Association.

 * While the fabled cherry trees in Washington represent a suitable monument for Nellie Taft, there is no memorial to her husband, except perhaps the magnificent home for his Court—one for which he eagerly planned. But he died even before ground was broken for the structure. As he reacted to his overwhelming defeat for reelection in 1912, Taft had written that "I must wait for years if I would be vindicated by the people ... I am content to wait." Perhaps he has waited long enough.
 * Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: Progressive Conservative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 200

 * Many years before Harry Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, there was another prima donna general, the renowned John C. Frémont. For issuing orders authorizing the emancipation of slaves in Missouri without presidential permission, Lincoln fired him on the spot. As for MacArthur, he should have known better: the same thing had also happened to his own father. Back in the early 1900s, General Arthur MacArthur, military governor of the Philippines, made the stupid mistake of not recognizing the superior authority of the civilian governor, William Howard Taft, who later became president. Years later, when MacArthur's turn came to be promoted to Army Chief of Staff, Taft blackballed him.
 * Seymour Morris Jr., American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks (2010), p. 314-315

 * Writing in The Crisis in 1911, W.E.B. Du Bois bitterly described Taft's betrayal of black Americans. "In the face of a record of murder, lynching and burning in this country which has appalled the civilized world and loosened the tongue of many a man long since dumb on the race problem, spite of this, Mr. Taft has blandly informed a deputation of colored men that any action on his part is quite outside his power, if not his interest."
 * Adam Serwer The Cruelty is the Point (2021)

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IPod

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer.

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 * It's so slim Kate Moss uses it to cut her cocaine.
 * Bill Maher on the iPod nano, from the show Real Time with Bill Maher, episode 8 in series 6.

 * No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
 * Rob Malda, on the iPod at its release in 2001.

 * The most common format of music on an iPod is “stolen.”
 * Steve Ballmer on October 4, 2004.

 * Battery life is dependent on several factors, including frequency of searching/song selection, temperature and possibly the moon's gravitation pull. Times are estimations.
 * Future Shop

 * What is this? It says "Ipp odd".
 * Said by a person who has been in a vegetative state for ten years on the TV series House

 * Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of songs and albums. Though the medium of music has changed, the iPod experience has kept the spirit of what it means to be a music lover alive.
 * John Mayer, on the iPod
 * Neumayr, Tom (2007). "100 Million iPods Sold" Apple.com (accessed April 9, 2007).

 * Less than half the size and weight of the Nomad Jukebox plus a firewire connection that can fill the player's 5GB hard drive in only 10 minutes. When so many Windows and Linux users desire a Mac-only device, you know they have done something right.
 * Source MP3 2001 in Review: The Winners - Richard Menta awarded the original iPod third place in this December 31, 2001 MP3 Newswire article.

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Talk:Jack White

Does anybody out there have any idea of Jack Whites birthtime?

Does it matter?
 * I added more info., including his birthdate. ~ UDScott 22:08, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

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Blake Schwarzenbach

Blake Schwarzenbach (born May 21, 1967) is a musician and songwriter best known as frontman of rock bands Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil.

Perfecting Loneliness (2002)

 * with Jets to Brazil

 * The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in their powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again
 * "Further North"

 * If it's sad / you know it's true / God is glad on bluer moons / When your room is all you do / it comes to you
 * "Psalm"

 * We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard
 * "Disgrace"

Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)

 * with Jets to Brazil

 * Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
 * "Sea Anemone"

 * Be a believer / Believe everything / You'll be right half the time
 * "Chinatown"

Dear You (1995)

 * with Jawbreaker

 * Everyone tells me they're crazy / Crazy people aren't so fucking boring / Wake me when you're through being cool 'cause I'm snoring
 * "Unlisted Track"

24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993)

 * with Jawbreaker

 * You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac
 * "Boxcar"

 * Put my ear to the door / I just heard gunshots and hot rods and sirensPeople kill me these days / There's keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside
 * "Condition Oakland"

Interviews

 * The records I end up liking I don't like right off the bat. I want to call our next record Tenth Listen. That's the test.

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Bill Maher iPod quote
An editor using this IP address added a quote from Bill Maher about the iPod nano in the "Sourced" section, but provided only a link to a video clip on an apparently personal non-English website, with no proper original source information. I've tweaked the entry the reflect what I could find out about it, which is very little. (It looks to me like it's a 2005 edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, but I'm hardly an appropriate source for that information.) It would be very helpful if this person could provide a specific program name and program date to the citation, so it is verifiable by English-speaking editors. Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:03, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

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Hugo Chávez

] Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until March 2013.

1992

 * Before anything else I would like to say good day to all of the Venezuelan people, and this Boliviarian message is directed to the brave soldiers in the Parachutist Regimen of Aragua and the Armed Brigade of Valencia. Friends: For now, lamentably, the objectives we considered were not achieved in the capital. That is to say, we here in Caracas have not managed to take power. You did very well over there, but now is the time to reflect; new situations will come and the country must definitively get on the path to a better destiny. So hear my word; hear Commander Chávez, who sends you this message so that you may please reflect and put down your weapons, because now, really, the objectives that we have brought to the national level are impossible to achieve. Friends: Hear this message of solidarity. I thank you for your loyalty, your valor, your exuberance, and I, before this country and before you all, assume responsibility for this Boliviarian militant movement. Thank you.
 * Hugo Chávez to Venezuelan television reporters just before being arrested for his participation in an attempted coup d'état, February 1992.

2002

 * We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world
 * Hugo Chávez

2004

 * He was an asshole to believe them.
 * Remarks about US President George W. Bush during a pro-government rally in Caracas on March 1, 2004, accusing the US of "meddling" in Venezuela's affairs.

 * I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar's sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people. For you who, like Bolivar, are and will always be a true freedom fighter. [Mugabe] continues, alongside his people, to confront the pretensions of new imperialists.
 * Praising Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a freedom fighter, as quoted in "Chavez's colourful quotations" at BBC News (12 November 2007)

2005

 * When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. The attacks on Venezuela are a sign of weakness, ideological weakness. Nowadays almost nobody defends neoliberalism. Up until three years ago, just Fidel [Castro] and I raised those criticisms at Presidential meetings. We felt lonely, as if we infiltrated those meetings.
 * Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005.

 * Just look at the internal repression inside the United States, the Patriot Act, which is a repressive law against U.S. citizens. They have put in jail a group of journalists for not revealing their sources. They won't allow them to take pictures of the bodies of the dead soldiers, many of them Latinos, coming from Iraq. Those are signs of Goliath's weaknesses.
 * Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005.

 * The south also exists... the future of the north depends on the south. If we don't make that better world possible, if we fail, and through the rifles of the U.S. Marines, and through Mr. Bush's murderous bombs, if there is no coincidence and organization necessary in the south to resist the offensive of neo-imperialism, and the Bush doctrine is imposed upon the world, the world will be destroyed.
 * Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005.

 * Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can not be transcended through capitalism itself; it must be done through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I’m also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.
 * Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005.

 * We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.
 * Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005.

 * Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can’t be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can’t be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
 * Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005.

 * If I am assassinated, there is only one person responsible: the president of the United States. If, by the hand of the devil, these perverse plans succeed...forget about Venezuelan oil, Mr. Bush. I will not hide, I will walk in the streets with all of you...but I know I am condemned to death.
 * Hugo Chávez message to George Bush during his television/radio show ¡Aló Presidente! on February 20, 2005.

 * The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
 * Hugo Chávez at a press conference in New Delhi, after signing a cooperative agreement with India's hydrocarbon sector, March 2005.

 * "I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
 * Hugo Chávez in March 2005

 * The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat … is represented by U.S. imperialism.
 * Hugo Chávez during his television/radio show ¡Aló Presidente! on August 21, 2005.

 * But Cuba doesn’t have a dictatorship — it’s a revolutionary democracy.
 * Hugo Chávez during his television/radio show ¡Aló Presidente! on August 21, 2005.

 * [ Pat Robertson] is expressing the wishes of the US elite. If anything happens to me then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin. This is pure terrorism.
 * Responding to remarks from US TV evangelist Pat Robertson on August 28, 2005.

 * That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
 * Hugo Chávez criticizes George W. Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, during a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television (August 31, 2005).

 * Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.
 * Hugo Chávez during his television/radio show ¡Aló Presidente! on October 2, 2005.
 * The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.
 * Christmas Speech at a rehabilitation center on December 24th, 2005.

 * Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
 * Hugo Chávez in retort to a comment by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

 * What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
 * Hugo Chávez on Halloween.

 * I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
 * Hugo Chávez speaking in October 2005

 * It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.
 * Statement in reference to Mexican president Vicente Fox's support of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, in Mar de Plata as quoted in "Chavez's colourful quotations" at BBC News (12 November 2007)

 * The world has an offer for everybody but it turned out that a few minorities--the descendants of those who crucified Christ, the descendants of those who expelled Bolivar from here and also those who in a certain way crucified him in Santa Marta, there in Colombia--they took possession of the riches of the world, a minority took possession of the planet’s gold, the silver, the minerals, the water, the good lands, the oil, and they have concentrated all the riches in the hands of a few; less than 10 percent of the world population owns more than half of the riches of the world.
 * Chavez is invoking a Christian metaphor to condemn capitalism in this Christmas address, December 24, 2005, which some commentators have taken to be a reference to the Jews.

President Hugo Chavez's Speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Full Transcript online

 * They [US officials] say they want to impose a democratic model. But that's their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?
 * [If] we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They'll say yes.
 * But the government doesn't want peace. The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war... But what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? In Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last 100 years in Latin America and in the world? And now threatening Venezuela -- new threats against Venezuela, against Iran?
 * I think there are reasons to be optimistic...because over and above the wars and the bombs and the aggressive and the preventive war and the destruction of entire peoples, one can see that a new era is dawning... the era is giving birth to a heart. There are alternative ways of thinking. There are young people who think differently. And this has already been seen within the space of a mere decade. It was shown that the end of history was a totally false assumption, and the same was shown about Pax Americana and the establishment of the capitalist neo-liberal world. It has been shown, this system, to generate mere poverty. Who believes in it now?
 * What we now have to do is define the future of the world. Dawn is breaking out all over. You can see it in Africa and Europe and Latin America and Oceanea. I want to emphasize that optimistic vision.
 * We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our awareness. We have to build a new and better world.
 * Venezuela joins that struggle, and that's why we are threatened. The U.S. has already planned, financed and set in motion a coup in Venezuela, and it continues to support coup attempts in Venezuela and elsewhere.
 * ...reminded us just a moment ago of the horrendous assassination of the former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier. And I would just add one thing: Those who perpetrated this crime are free. And that other event where an American citizen also died were American themselves. They were CIA killers, terrorists.
 * In just a few days there will be another anniversary. Thirty years will have passed from this other horrendous terrorist attack on the Cuban plane, where 73 innocents died, a Cubana de Aviacion airliner. And where is the biggest terrorist of this continent who took the responsibility for blowing up the plane? He spent a few years in jail in Venezuela. Thanks to CIA and then government officials, he was allowed to escape, and he lives here in this country, protected by the government. And he was convicted. He has confessed to his crime. But the U.S. government has double standards. It protects terrorism when it wants to.

2006

 * Enough already with the imperialist aggression! Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
 * Remarks during a meeting with US activist Cindy Sheehan in January 2006.

 * Don’t be shameless, Mr Blair. Don’t be immoral, Mr. Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticize anyone about the rules of the international community. You are an imperialist pawn who attempts to curry favor with Danger Bush-Hitler, the number one mass murderer and assassin there is on the planet. Go straight to hell, Mr. Blair.
 * Responding to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which Mr. Blair urged Venezuela to abide by the rules of the international community. (February 2006) 12

 * You messed up with me, birdie. No? You don't know much about history. You don't know much about anything, you know? A great ignorance is what you've got. You are ignorant, Mr. Danger. You are an ignorant. You are a donkey, Mr. Danger … By that I mean, you know, to say it with all its letters, to Mr. George W. Bush. You are a donkey, Mr. Bush. I'm going to tell you something, Mr. Danger. You are a coward, you know? You are a coward. Why don't you go to Iraq and command your army? It's so easy to command an army from afar. If you ever come up with the crazy idea of invading Venezuela, I'll be waiting for you in this savanna, Mr. Danger. Come on here, Mr. Danger. Come on here. Come on here, Mr. Danger. Coward, assassin, genocidal... Genocidal, you are a genocidal. You are an alcoholic, a drunk.. A drunk, Mr. Danger. You are immoral, Mr. Danger... You are the worst ever, Mr. Danger … The worst of this planet, the very worst is called George W. Bush. God save the world from this menace. Because he is an assassin. A sick man, a psychologically ill man, I know it. Personally, he is a coward. But he has a lot of power. He has a lot of power. And look at what's happening in Iraq. Yesterday the world marched against the war... 70%, according to the surveys I've seen, of your own people, Mr. Danger, are against you, against the war. You are a liar, Mr. Danger. You are killing children, Mr. Danger, who aren't responsible for your illnesses, of your complexes. Your soldiers in Iraq are bombing cities. Just yesterday we were watching images of five children who were murdered by you soldiers. They're not the murderers. You are the murderer, coward!
 * Message to George W. Bush, in a nationally televised speech in March 2006.

 * [I'm being] compared to the biggest genocide person alive, in the history of humanity, the president of the United States... killer, genocidal, immoral... who should be taken to prison by an international criminal court. I don't know to what you are referring when you compare me to President Bush. Have I invaded any country? Have Venezuelans invaded anything? Have we bombarded a city? Have we had a coup d'etat? Have we used the CIA to kill a president? Have we protected terrorists in Venezuela? That's Bush!
 * Hugo Chávez to reporters during a press conference with London mayor Ken Livingstone on May 12, 2006.

 * We see here a model social state like the one we are beginning to create.
 * Hugo Chávez to reporters during a state visit to Minsk, Belarus, on July 25, 2006.

 * I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.
 * Hugo Chávez, referring to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, to reporters during a state visit to Minsk, Belarus, on July 25, 2006.

 * [I admire] your wisdom and strength. [...] We are with you and with Iran forever. As long as we remain united we will be able to defeat [U.S.] imperialism, but if we are divided they will push us aside.
 * Said to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, during a meeting to the country on July 29, 2006.

 * Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire
 * Hugo Chávez on the Islamic Republic Medal ceremony at Tehran University in Iran. July 30th, 2006.

 * Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust. But this is a new Holocaust.
 * In protest of Israel's military offensive in Lebanon.

 * The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. [crosses himself] And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.
 * Speech at the U.N. in which he referred to George W. Bush as the Devil, (September 2006), as quoted in "Chavez's colourful quotations" at BBC News (12 November 2007)

 * Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation, of the kind of misery and inequality that destroys social values. If you really look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ - who I think was the first socialist - only socialism can really create a genuine society.
 * As quoted in Reformism or Revolution: Marxism and socialism of the 21st Century (Reply to Heinz Dieterich) (24 September 2006)

2007

 * Dr Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role.
 * Chavez responding to criticism from OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza regarding the governments decision for not renew the license of an opposition-aligned TV station. (January 9, 2007)

 * Go to hell, gringos! Go home!...What does the empire want? Condoleezza said it. How are you? You’ve forgotten me, missy...Condoleezza said it clearly, it’s about creating a new geopolitical map in the Middle East...They took out Saddam Hussein and they hung him, for better or worse. It’s not up to me to judge any government, but that gentleman was the president of that country.
 * Weekly radio address (January 21, 2007)

 * The two of them [Bush & Negroponte] are criminals. They should be tried and thrown in prison for the rest of their days. If he had any dignity, the president of the United States would quit. The U.S. president doesn't have the political or moral capacity to govern.
 * Responding to remarks by US President Bush, over concerns of Venezuela's democracy being under threat. (February 1, 2007)

 * No se trata de estatizar toda la economía (...) No, nuestro socialismo acepta la propiedad privada. Solo que esa propiedad privada debe estar en el marco de una constitución y leyes y de un interés social.
 * It's not about nationalize the entire economy, (...) No, our socialism accepts private property. It's only that this private property must be within the framework of a constitution and laws and of a social interest.
 * As quoted in Socialismo aceptará propiedad privada (23 July, 2007), La Nación

 * Critico, aunque respeto, a mis amigos que sostienen la idea marxista leninista de que no debe haber propiedad privada, porque no la comparto.
 * I criticize, although I respect, my friends that hold the idea that there should not be private property, because I do not share it.
 * In his talk show , as quoted in Chavez defiende propiedad privada frente a marxistas leninistas (August 26, 2007), El Universal.

 * La propiedad privada es aquella que pertenece a personas naturales o jurídicas y que se reconoce sobre bienes de uso y consumo y medios de producción legítimamente adquiridos.
 * Private property is that which belong to natural or s and that it is recognize under legitimately acquired and  and means of production.
 * Reading the Article 113 on the Constitution Amendment in his talk show . As quoted in Chavez defiende propiedad privada frente a marxistas leninistas (26 August, 2007), El Universal.

 * Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
 * Referring to Spanish politician José María Aznar as a fascist, November 2007.

 * If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.
 * Opening remarks at the OPEC Summit, November 2007.

 * A Third World War? With an atom bomb? He said it, with an atom bomb. There would be no more world. The world would end. Humanity would no longer exist. I think he has to be put in an asylum. He has to be put in an mental asylum.
 * Responding to President George W. Bush remarks on Iran, November 21, 2007

 * If the "yes" vote wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, playing the [U.S.] empire's game, comes with their little stories of fraud, oil shipments to the United States will be halted [on Monday].
 * We're not really confronting those peons of imperialism. Our true enemy is called the North American empire and we're going to give another knockout to Bush.
 * If any international channel comes here to take part in an operation from the imperialist against Venezuela, your reporters will be thrown out of the country, they will not be able to work here. People at CNN, listen carefully: This is just a warning.
 * Closing remarks at the rally in support for an upcoming Venezuelan constitutional referendum in December 2007, which would free Chavez from term-limit restrictions and move the country toward institutionalized socialism.

2008

 * I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. … Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?
 * Statement of 21 September 2008, as quoted in "Credit Crisis Fools Latin America's Leaders: Alexandre Marinis" at Bloomberg.com (21 October 2008)

2009

 * Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.
 * Speech to a May 2009 "Socialist Transformation Workshop" in Guayana, as quoted in Venezuela Nationalizes Gas Plant and Steel Companies, Pledges Worker Control: James Suggett at Venezuela Analysis (22 May 2009)

 * It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
 * Speech at the U.N, welcoming the Obama administration. (September 2009) BBC

2010

 * I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.
 * Chavez trying to make a song about Hillary Clinton on June 2010. 1

 * If there was any armed aggression against Venezuela from Colombian territory or from anywhere else, promoted by the Yankee empire, we would suspend oil shipments to the United States even if we have to eat stones here. We would not send a drop more to U.S. refineries!
 * Chávez reacting to US support to Colombia during the diplomatic crisis with that country on July 25, 2010

 * Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'You've got to find Chavez to kill him'.
 * Chávez referring to the videogame Mercenaries 2: World in Flames where the player has to kill a Venezuelan general. Quoted in Chavez Sets His Sights On Banks And Barbie

 * You should resign. It's the least you can do: Resign, along with those other spies and delinquents working in the State Department.
 * Chavez told Hillary Clinton in a televised speech on December 9, 2010

2011

 * Liberator of Libya, He will be remembered as a great fighter, a revolutionary and martyr. They assassinated him. It is another outrage.
 * Chavez on Muammar Gaddafi.

 * Mr. Obama decided to attack us, Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don’t be irresponsible. You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace … Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people.
 * On Barack Obama after he criticized Venezuela’s ties with Iran and Cuba.

 * 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

2012

 * I extend from here my recognition of all who voted against us, recognition of their democratic weight.
 * On his election victory. (08 December 2012)

 * El socialismo bolivariano nosotros tenemos que construirlo en el marco de la Constitución Bolivariana. [...] Nosotros no tenemos prevista la eliminación de la propiedad privada, ni la grande ni la pequeña. [...] El socialismo tenemos que construirlo, los sectores de clase media, profesionales, técnicos, nos hacen falta para construir un socialismo productivo. Nosotros necesitamos a la clase media, a los profesionales, a los técnicos, a los empresarios, a los agricultores, a la juventud, que se incorpore a un debate amplio. El socialismo del siglo XXI es democracia. Nosotros no estamos hablando de la dictadura del proletariado. No.
 * We have to build the Bolivarian socialism within the framework of the Bolivarian Constitution. [...] We do not envisage the abolition of private property, neither the big nor the little one. [...] Socialism has to be built by us, the sectors of the middle class, professionals, technicians, they are needed to build a productive socialism. We need the middle class, the professionals, the technicians, the entrepreneurs, the farmers, the youth, to join into a broad debate. Socialism of the 21st century is democracy, we are not talking about the dictatorship of the proletariat. No.
 * As quoted in Chávez propone constituir un ministerio para el seguimiento de obras y políticas (6 October 2012), Correo del Orinoco.

2013

 * We have arrived again to Venezuela, Thank God. Thanks to my beloved country.
 * After coming back to Caracas. Chávez was in Cuba receiving treatment for cancer. 18 February, 2013.
 * He passed away on 2013/03/06 by cancer.

 * I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.
 * Last words (mouthed).

Unknown year

 * Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all, I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today - ethics, and moral...[Capitalism is] an infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
 * Hugo Chávez

 * Democracy is not just turning up to vote every five or four years, it’s much more than that, it’s a way of life, it’s giving power to the people.

Quotes about Chávez

 * Mr. Chávez is my brother, he is a friend of the Iranian nation and the people seeking freedom around the world. He works perpetually against the dominant system. He is a worker of God and servant of the people.
 * Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon decorating Chávez with the "Higher Medal of the Islamic Republic of Iran" (July 28, 2006).

 * The stem cell debate was an introduction to a phenomenon I witnessed throughout my presidency: highly personal criticism. Partisan opponents and commentators questioned my legitimacy, my intelligence, and my sincerity. They mocked my appearance, my accent, and my religious beliefs. I was labeled a Nazi, a war criminal, and Satan himself. That last one came from a foreign leader, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
 * George W. Bush, Decision Points (2010), p. 121

 * It is difficult to fathom the level of economic and social degradation occurring today in Venezuela under chavismo, the movement founded by the late leftist firebrand Hugo Chávez, who died of cancer three years ago. What began as a war against the “squalid” oligarchy in order to build what he called “21st-century socialism” — cheered on as he was by many leftists from abroad — has collapsed into an unprecedented heap of misery and conflict. Unsurprisingly, Chávez was incapable of reinventing socialism as anything other than a prescription for abject failure. Ultimately, all he wound up bequeathing to his people is this century’s longest national train wreck.
 * José R. Cárdenas, "In Venezuela, Socialism Is Killing Venezuelans", the National Review, May 18, 2016

 * Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world
 * Jeremy Corbyn,  (5 March 2013)

 * He was a great politician for his country and for the world as a whole.
 * Vitaly Churkin, 5th March 2013.

 * 1.- Luis Miquilena, a political mentor who helped steer Chavez to the presidency in 1998, has done an about-face since leaving the government in 2002. This week, he described it as a "hypocritical authoritarianism that tries to sell the world certain democratic appearances". 2.- He said of him:... he is made for the confrontation... his style of governing was an almost of teenager... he is not a man furnished well mentally... he has not definite ideology... he is incendiary... he is erratic... he is unpunctual... he is disordered... is lover of luxury... he is limited... he is emotive... he was operating with total arbitrariness, as if he was handling a personal ranch... "annotate me there, to give 4 billions to this bank"… he has not rules of control... he does not know of finance... "Fidel had put in his head from a beginning, the idea that he could to be assassinated".
 * 1.- Time World Article Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
 * 2.- Andrés Oppenheimer. Cuentos Chinos. 2005. Págs. 252 a 256. Caracas, Venezuela. Random House Mondadori, Editorial Melvin. ISBN 9802933279 CITIZEN FEATHERS

 * The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past make US US aggression against it possible in the present. It is worth summing up some of these key lies: Venezuela was “once prosperous” and ruined by socialism. In fact, Venezuela was an unequal country in which most people were poor despite the country’s oil wealth, which had generated huge export revenues since the 1920s.Venezuela was a democracy before Chavismo. In fact, Venezuela’s democracy was a gravely flawed system in which politicians alternated holding power according to an undemocratic agreement, and rammed austerity down the throats of Venezuela’s poor by committing massacres, such as the Caracazo.Chavismo ruined Venezuela’s democracy. Chávez indeed attempted to carry out a coup in 1992, but he came to power through an election in 1998, and afterward made changes through extensive democratic processes.
 * The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez, Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), (26 August 2021)

 * In his State of the Union address on February 6, 2019, Donald Trump said: We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom—and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair. Trump’s ridiculous comment was not considered controversial, because the Western media, including the anti-Trump outlets like the New York Times, have spent many years conveying a lie: that Venezuela had been very prosperous and democratic until Hugo Chávez, and then his successor Nicolás Maduro, came along and ruined everything. If readers believe that, then they may indeed wonder, “Why shouldn’t the US government help Venezuelans return to that prosperous state?”
 * The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez, Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), (26 August 2021)

 * A tropical Mussolini.
 * Carlos Fuentes, describing Chavez, as quoted in The Economist, 19 May 2012, p. 90

 * But there is another way to break a democracy. It is less dramatic but equally destructive. Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in Germany. More often, though, democracies erode slowly, in barely visible steps. In Venezuela, for example, Hugo Chávez was a political outsider who railed against what he cast as a corrupt governing elite, promising to build a more “authentic” democracy that used the country’s vast oil wealth to improve the lives of the poor. Skillfully tapping into the anger of ordinary Venezuelans, many of whom felt ignored or mistreated by the established political parties, Chávez was elected president in 1998. As a woman in Chávez’s home state of Barinas put it on election night, “Democracy is infected. And Chávez is the only antibiotic we have.” When Chávez launched his promised revolution, he did so democratically. In 1999, he held free elections for a new constituent assembly, in which his allies won an overwhelming majority. This allowed the chavistas to single-handedly write a new constitution. It was a democratic constitution, though, and to reinforce its legitimacy, new presidential and legislative elections were held in 2000. Chávez and his allies won those, too. Chávez’s populism triggered intense opposition, and in April 2002, he was briefly toppled by the military. But the coup failed, allowing a triumphant Chávez to claim for himself even more democratic legitimacy. It wasn’t until 2003 that Chávez took his first clear steps toward authoritarianism. With public support fading, he stalled an opposition-led referendum that would have recalled him from office—until a year later, when soaring oil prices had boosted his standing enough for him to win. In 2004, the government blacklisted those who had signed the recall petition and packed the supreme court, but Chávez’s landslide reelection in 2006 allowed him to maintain a democratic veneer. The chavista regime grew more repressive after 2006, closing a major television station, arresting or exiling opposition politicians, judges, and media figures on dubious charges, and eliminating presidential term limits so that Chávez could remain in power indefinitely. When Chávez, now dying of cancer, was reelected in 2012, the contest was free but not fair: Chavismo controlled much of the media and deployed the vast machinery of the government in its favor. After Chávez’s death a year later, his successor, Nicolás Maduro, won another questionable reelection, and in 2014, his government imprisoned a major opposition leader. Still, the opposition’s landslide victory in the 2015 legislative elections seemed to belie critics’ claims that Venezuela was no longer democratic. It was only when a new single-party constituent assembly usurped the power of Congress in 2017, nearly two decades after Chávez first won the presidency, that Venezuela was widely recognized as an autocracy.
 * Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018) How Democracies Die. New York: Crown.

 * you asked about Hugo Chávez a while ago. I mean, there’s a whole lot going on in Latin America, and there’s an overall push to the left overall — not every country, and not everything, but I find it very encouraging, you know?
 * Elizabeth Martinez, Oral History Interview (2006)

 * The history of Venezuela and oil flows through Mene Grande like the crude oil through the silver pipe. The first oil workers’ strike occurred here (and was put down here) in 1925. In 1976, during the country’s first petrodelirium, when oil prices quadrupled, President Carlos Andrés Pérez came to Mene Grande to declare the nationalization of the oil industry. Three decades later, in the midst of an even bigger boom, President Hugo Chávez came here to announce a second nationalization, changing the terms by which foreign oil companies operated in Venezuela and giving the government a controlling stake in everything that happened in the oil fields. There were information boards at the edge of the parking lot commemorating the dual nationalizations; in their telling, Chávez got all the glory. Chávez had died a year earlier, in 2013, after fourteen years as president. A former soldier, he called himself a socialist and a revolutionary and he delighted in thumbing his nose at the United States, the imperial power to the north, to which he sold most of his country’s oil. His successor was Nicolás Maduro, a less talented politician who styled himself as the ideological heir of the man he called the eternal comandante. In Maduro’s short time as president, there had been waves of protest, the economy had begun to contract, inflation was soaring, and shortages of food and other goods were becoming acute.
 * William Neuman, Things Are Never So Bad They Can't Get Any Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela (2022),

 * At the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, in Venezuela, the authoritarian populist Hugo Chávez and his disciple Nicolás Maduro initiated a similar policy of massive spending, corruption and nationalization. The difference was that Chávez had control over the world’s largest oil reserves at a time when oil prices were soaring, so he received almost $1,000 billion that could keep that policy afloat for a little longer. That was enough for Chávez to be the left’s favourite demagogue for a while. Bernie Sanders said that the American dream was more alive in Venezuela than in the US. Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn praised Chávez for showing that ‘the poor matter and wealth can be shared’. Oxfam called Venezuela ‘Latin America’s inequality success story’. In an open letter to ‘Dear President Chávez’, luminaries of the Left such as Jesse Jackson, Naomi Klein, Howard Zinn and others state that they ‘see Venezuela not only as a model democracy but also as a model of how a country’s oil wealth can be used to benefit all of its people.’ On paper, that $1,000 billion was enough to make every extremely poor individual in Venezuela a millionaire. But still, it is not much money if you do not invest it productively and if you destroy the ability to create new wealth with nationalization and price controls. When the price of oil began to fall only slightly, it became obvious that the business sector was in a shambles and the oil industry had been demolished by corrupt mismanagement and underinvestment. The result was one of the worst economic disasters to have occurred anywhere in the world in peacetime. Between 2010 and 2020, Venezuela’s average income plummeted by an incomprehensible 75 per cent. South America’s richest country suddenly turned into South America’s poorest country with breadlines and a mass exodus from an increasingly tyrannical state. Around seven million Venezuelans have fled the crumbling country, an unbelievable 25 per cent of the country’s population. Since then, Venezuela has been less frequently mentioned as the hope of the international working class.
 * Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023)

 * This is the story of Venezuela in black and white, the story not told in The New York Times or the rest of our establishment media. This year’s so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor... Four centuries of white supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez, who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority. This turn away from white supremacy continues under Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor.... The putsch in Venezuela is run by the wealthy, internationally connected minority operating by a regime-change plan designed by neocon retread John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser — a plan to control Venezuela and its oil, as Bolton openly proclaims.
 * Greg Palast in In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup, Truthout (7 February 2019)

 * The events... were a direct result of the 1998 elections, when the poor and disenfranchised of Venezuela elected Hugo Chavez by a landslide as their president. He immediately instituted drastic measures, taking control of the courts and other institutions and dissolving the Venezuelan Congress. He denounced the United States for its "shameless imperialism," spoke out forcefully against globalization, and introduced a hydrocarbons law that was reminiscent, even in name, to the one Jaime Roldos had brought to Ecuador shortly before his airplane went down. The law doubled the royalties charged to foreign oil companies. Then Chavez defied the traditional independence of the state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, by replacing its top executives with people loyal to him... By taking over the industry, Chavez had thrust himself onto the world stage as a major player.
 * John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hitman, (2004)

 * By December 2002, the situation in both Venezuela and in Iraq reached crisis points... Then came the news that they had succeeded; Chavez had been ousted.... If Mr. Reich, and the Bush administration were celebrating the coup against Chavez, the party was suddenly cut short. In an amazing turnabout. Chavez regained the upper hand and was back in power less than seventy-two hours later. Unlike Mossadegh in Iran, Chavez had managed to keep the military on his side, despite all attempts to turn its highest-ranking officers against him. In addition, he had the powerful state oil company on his side. Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) defied the thousands of striking workers and made a comeback...
 * John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hitman, (2004)

 * Chavez tightened his government's grip on oil company employees, purged the military of the few disloyal officers who had been persuaded to betray him, and forced many of his key opponents out of the country. He demanded twenty-year prison terms for two prominent opposition leaders, Washington-connected operatives who had joined the jackals to direct the nationwide strike. In the final analysis, the entire sequence of events was a calamity for the Bush administration. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Bush administration officials acknowledged Tuesday that they had discussed the removal of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for months with military and civilian leaders from Venezuela... The administration's handling of  the abortive coup has come under increasing scrutiny.  It was obvious that not only had the EHMs failed, but so had the jackals. Venezuela in 2003 turned out to be very different from Iran in 1953. I wondered if this was a harbinger or simply an anomaly and what Washington would do next.
 * John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hitman, (2004)

 * At least for the time being, I believe a serious crisis was averted in Venezuela — and Chavez was saved — by Saddam Hussein. The Bush administration could not take on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela  all at once. At the moment, it had neither the military muscle nor the  political support to do so. I knew, however, that such circumstances could change quickly, and that President Chavez was likely to face fierce opposition in the near future.
 * John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hitman, (2004)

 * I think that Hugo Chavez of Venezuela might not have survived his presidency... had we not been in Iraq and Afghanistan, that we were so diverted. We — the economic hit men tried to overthrow him, you know, a few years ago and were successful for about 48 hours. But then he had control over the oil company, and he was very, very popular. So he got back into office. At that point, had we not been involved in Iraq, I strongly suspect that we would have done something much more aggressive, as we’ve done so many other times. When the economic hit men fail, we take more drastic steps. Because we were so involved in Iraq, we didn’t do that. This gave great support to all of the other movements in Latin America. And these other candidates, people like Evo Morales, really looked to Hugo Chavez as an example of someone who’s had the staying power. He’s been able to stay there, despite the fact that the (G.W. Bush) administration has spoken so strongly against him and is so angry.
 * John Perkins, quoted in: Self-Described Economic Hit Man John Perkins: “We Have Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire”, Democracy Now,   (15 February 2006)

 * President Hugo Chávez was a fundamental pillar for sports in my country. He promoted many methods for sport to reach the lowest levels and for children to see that sport was important for health, for human values.
 * Yulimar Rojas, quoted in La nueva alegría de Venezuela: Yulimar Rojas (1 August 2021)

 * The good news is that we're not doing too badly. There have been major victories. Here in Latin America you have had so many-in Bolivia, you have Cochabamba. In Peru, there was the uprising Arequipa, In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez is holding on, despite the U.S. government's best efforts.
 * Arundhati Roy War Talk (2003)

 * Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President.
 * José Serrano, 5th March 2013.

 * I liked [Chavez]. He's very warm and very gracious. And he's a bear. I've always said that if he looked like Woody Allen he'd play a lot better with the world press. I think men are threatened by his physicality.
 * Oliver Stone speaking to The Observer in July 2010, (paragraph 23)

 * Even Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist president, found this a stunning move for a nominally market economy to take. "Bush is to the left of me now," he said. "Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks."
 * Thomas E. Woods, describing Chavez's reaction to the US Troubled Asset Relief Program enacted in 2008; as quoted in Meltdown (2009), Regenery, p. 65

Hugo Chavez's economic miracle, by David Sirota, Salon (6 March 2013)
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 * Chavez became the bugaboo of American politics because his full-throated advocacy of socialism and redistributionism... delivered some indisputably positive results. Indeed, as shown by some of the most significant indicators, Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving.

 * Chavez's first decade... saw Venezuelan GDP more than double... both infant mortality and unemployment almost halved... under Chavez's brand of socialism, poverty in Venezuela plummeted... its "extreme poverty" rate fell from 23.4 percent in 1999 to 8.5 percent... left the country with the third lowest poverty rate in Latin America... college enrollment... more than doubled, millions of people have access to health care for the first time... the number of people eligible for public pensions has quadrupled.

 * When... a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela's did... especially when said country has valuable oil resources... [Venezuela] came to be seen as a serious threat to the global system of corporate capitalism... a high crime prompting a special punishment.

 * Are there any lessons to be learned from Venezuela's policies that so rapidly reduced poverty?...Are there any constructive lessons to be learned from Chavez's grand experiment with more aggressive redistribution? Such questions need to be asked. The problem is that...at the moment Chavez's name is invoked, the conversation is inevitably terminated, ending any possibility of discourse. That is by design - it is what the longtime caricaturing and marginalizing of Chavez was always supposed to do. But maybe now [that Hugo Chavez has passed away]...a more constructive, honest and critical economic conversation can finally begin.

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User talk:80.3.76.135

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Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog

The following are several of the quotes associated with Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, the fictional puppet character from NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien:

Premiere Line, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

 * -Triumph: "May the Force be with you... for me... to poop on."

 * -Triumph: "Unbelievable, look, among the nerds I found an actual girl here. Look at this, not too shabby around here, huh honey? The male/female ratio, yeah? I mean, you've got your veritable pick of the litter: you can choose from all kinds of guys who have no idea how to please you."

 * While talking to a pregnant fan:
 * -Triumph: "So what's going on here, we've got a little future nerd in here?"
 * -Woman: "Yes, yes, future nerd, future Jedi."
 * -Triumph: "When is he due?"
 * -Woman: "June 27th, 6 weeks."
 * -Triumph: "Wow. That's the last time he'll ever see female genitalia."

 * To a fan in a Darth Vader costume (on the chestbar):
 * -Triumph: "So this is to help you breathe yes? And which of these buttons calls your parents to pick you up?"

 * First encounter with Blackwolf the Dragonmaster, self-proclaimed Unofficial Wizard of New York City:
 * -Triumph: "All right! And don't you forget to finish your Filet-O-Fish --- Dragonmaster!"
 * -Blackwolf: "Oh, quiet!"
 * -Triumph: "Burger King: Where ALL Dragonmasters eat!"

 * From that same encounter:
 * -Triumph: "So you're here just to pay your respects to the Jedi?"
 * -Blackwolf: "Hello! You are one uninformed hound, you know that?"
 * -Triumph: "It's called reality, my friend."

 * Addressing the crowd at the premiere for Attack Of The Clones:
 * -Triumph: "Okay, you guys ready for some trivia? Here's the first question. *Reading off a card.* What substance was Han Solo frozen in?"
 * -Crowd: "Carbonite!"
 * -Triumph: "No no, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, the correct answer is 'Who gives a shit?'"

"And now we proceed to the ceremonial banging of the plastic toys." Then, the groom kisses the bride, "after years of practicing on his sister".
 * When looking at a wedding organized in the waiting queue, Triumph notices the Jedi create a tunnel with their light sabers, while quickly repeatedly hitting the opposite person's tool. His description:

 * Later at the same premiere
 * -Triumph: "Star Wars will be a great movie... for me to poop on!"

Triumph visits Quebec
During Conan's special series of shows taped in Toronto, Canada, a segment in which Triumph pokes fun at the Quebec separation movement generated a firestorm of controversy from Canadian politicians, especially due to the fact the government had provided funding to help pay for Conan being taped in Toronto.

 * Hurled at an overweight man:
 * -Triumph: "Are you a separatist?... Maybe you should try separating yourself from donuts first."

 * Addressing a French person who could not speak English:
 * -Triumph: "Pardon me, I only know your basic french expressions like 'I surrender'."

Triumph visits Spin Alley
Triumph takes on Republican and Democratic spin doctors and political bigwigs after the 3rd U.S. presidential debate (2004) in what he refers to as Poop Valhalla. To Paul Begala: "Here, I'll talk to your butt...I'm sorry I forgot which side the poop comes out of."

Triumph attends a Bon Jovi concert

 * Triumph interviews fans, the band, and sings on stage with the band. To Bon Jovi:
 * -Triumph: "So you're acting now, you're in a vampire movie, yes? That's good. Finally, a role that requires you to suck."

To Heather Locklear:
 * -Triumph: "In the 80's, did Richie feather his pubes?"

Triumph goes on Hollywood Squares

 * Triumph guest stars on the show and interviews celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker, and hurls insults at Kathie Lee Gifford. When asked on the show which breed of dog is the heaviest:
 * -Triumph: "That's the Lhasa-Oprah. I'm pretty sure. It's either that or the Roker-Spaniel."

 * He returned after the re-design of the set
 * -Triumph: "Bergeron, I don't believe this place, it's all new! It's a new set, a new logo... you've got a brand new bitch [referring to Ellen DeGeneres] in the center square... Unbelievable!  I've got one question, though.  Why the Hell are you still here?!  Whose leg did you hump to keep this job?"

Triumph visits the Michael Jackson trial
Triumph reports from outside the courthouse during Michael Jackson's child molestation trial.
 * Triumph: "The poopy stench of media scum is neutralized by the sweet and pungent aroma of lunacy that is the Michael Jackson fan."
 * To a fan videotaping:
 * -Triumph: "Three months out here supporting Michael Jackson. Do you realize you could have been head movie usher by now?"

 * Triumph: "Of course, until the trial's over, none of us can really know whether Michael Jackson is innocent or guilty. But there's one thing we do know -- he's guilty."
 * When a Jackson fan dressed as a clown declines to be interviewed by Triumph:
 * -Triumph: "Oh, I understand. You wouldn't want to compromise your dignity!"

 * Curious to know what a fellow reporter thinks of the trial hearings to date, Triumph asks:
 * -Triumph: "On a scale of 1 to 10, how old is Michael's boyfriend?"

Triumph visits Kevin Pereira of G4TV's Attack of the Show

 * -Triumph: "I can't believe I'm talking to Kevin Pereira. You're the biggest star on G4TV; that's like being the biggest FLEA on my LEFT NUT."

Etc.

 * Commenting on the television show American Idol
 * -Triumph: "I ranked the contestants with three levels: gay, very gay, and Clay Aiken."

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.

Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)

 * Interview with Alan Bangs (1999)

 * Young people are very cynical now, you know? Very cynical! They've been taught cynicism, they've been — they've been bred cynicism. So, I think it's important to give them hope and realism in the same package, you know? You can be realistic but there should be — there should be hope in it. Because hope's what we're about. If we don't have hope then we don't go on.

 * I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.

 * I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

Rolling Stone interview (2002)

 * "Tom Petty Is Pissed" in Rolling Stone (23 October 2002)

 * You don't hear any more of, 'Hey, we did something creative and we turned a profit, how about that?' Everywhere we look, we want to make the most money possible. This is a dangerous, corrupt notion. That's where you see the advent of programming on the radio, and radio research, all these silly things. That has made pop music what it is today. Everything — morals, truth — is all going out the window in favor of profit.

 * I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. You know, I saw a billboard in New York I wish I had photographed. It was for the TNN network. It said three words against a patriotic background of red, white and blue — BIGGER, YOUNGER, RICHER. Now, I find that fascinating: 'Bigger, younger, richer.' This whole idea of being wealthy has gone too far. I never ride in a limousine, you know. I feel gross if I get in a limousine. One good thing about the sixties was it sort of was the opposite back then. You looked silly trying to appear rich.

 * It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. I'm not condoning downloading music for free. I don't think that's really fair, but I understand it. If you brought CD prices back down to $8.98, you would solve a lot of the industry's problems.

 * An act like ours wouldn't even be around today if someone hadn't brought us along and let us make mistakes and grow at our own pace. Today it seems that if you don't have a hit — or even if you do — they have no use for you the next time.

 * I'm frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it's not meant for me. Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

 * I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.

 * I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. It's damn dangerous. TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

 * Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time — starting with the artist — to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.

Esquire interview (2006)

 * "What I've Learned: Tom Petty" in Esquire (30 June 2006)

 * I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative. The hardest part for me is when my thirteen-year-old is complaining about the workload. I agree with him. I'm supposed to be responsible and support the teacher. But it's like, "You're right, son. This is bullshit."

 * If we're born in God's image, then God knows how we can fuck up. And he knows that you really didn't mean it.

Interview with Warren Zanes (2008)

 * Interview with Warren Zanes

 * It’s very uncomfortable to hear them used when I don’t agree with what’s being said. But I recognize that those songs have entered into a bigger life, a life all their own. They belong to the audience. How they’re used isn’t always something I can control.
 * Commenting on his music being used in political campaigns

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (1974)

 * It's alright if you love me, It's alright if you don't. I'm not afraid of you runnin' away, Honey I get the feeling you won't.
 * Breakdown

 * There is no sense in pretending, Your eyes give you away. Something inside you is feeling like I do, We've said all there is to say.
 * Breakdown

 * Well she was an American girl, raised on promises. She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a little more to life somewhere else. After all, it was a great big world with lots of places to run to. Yeah, and if she had to die tryin', she had one little promise she was gonna keep.
 * American Girl

 * And for one desperate moment There he crept back in her memory. God it's so painful, something that's so close Is still so far out of reach.
 * American Girl

You're Gonna Get It! (1978)

 * Little miss queen of hearts you're a strange thing. Why you wanna stay so vague? I'm wandering through this mess you've made To see what I can save.
 * Too Much Ain't Enough

 * I need to know(I need to know) I need to know(I need to know) If you think you're gonna leave, Then you better say so.
 * I Need to Know

 * She's gonna listen to her heart. It's gonna tell her what to do. She might need a lot of loving, But she don't need you.
 * Listen to Her Heart

 * Restless sleep, twisted dreams Moving targets, silent screams. Restless city, restless street Restless you, restless me.
 * Restless

 * My baby is a rock n' roller.
 * Baby's A Rock 'N' Roller, written with Mike Campbell

Damn The Torpedoes (1979)

 * Somewhere, somehow somebody Must have kicked you around some. Tell me why you wanna lay there And revel in your abandon. Listen it don't make no difference to me baby, Everybody's had to fight to be free. You see you don't have to live like a refugee
 * Refugee, written with Mike Campbell

 * You know, sometimes, I don't know why, But this old town just seems so hopeless. I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times Were just a little bit more in focus.
 * Here Comes My Girl, written with Mike Campbell

 * It just seems so useless to have to work so hard, And nothin' ever really seems to come from it.
 * Here Comes My Girl

 * I just catch myself wonderin', waitin', worryin' bout some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'.
 * Here Comes My Girl

 * And I'd show you stars you never could see Baby, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me.
 * Even the Losers

 * Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
 * Even the Losers

 * I was talkin' with a friend of mine, Said a woman done hurt his pride. Told him that she loved him so, then Turned around and let him go. Then he said "you'd better watch your step" Or you're gonna get hurt yourself. Someone's gonna tell you lies Cut you down to size...
 * Don't Do Me Like That

 * Louisiana rain now is falling just like tears. Running down my face washing out the years. Louisiana rain is soaking through my shoes. I may never be the same when I reach Baton Rouge.
 * Louisiana Rain

Hard Promises (1981)

 * Oh baby, don't it feel like heaven right now, Don't it feel like something from a dream.
 * The Waiting

 * The waiting is the hardest part. Every day you see one more card. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart. The waiting is the hardest part.
 * The Waiting

 * She's a woman in love And he's gonna break her heart to pieces. She don't want to see. She's a woman in love, but it's not me.
 * A Woman in Love (It's Not Me), written with Mike Campbell

 * Somewhere deep in the middle of the night, Lovers hold each other tight. Whisper in their anxious ears, Words of love that disappear.
 * A Thing About You

 * I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire. And I've had to live with some hard promises. I've crawled through the briars, I'm an insider.
 * Insider

Long After Dark (1982)

 * Good love is hard to find. You got lucky, babe. You got lucky, babe, when I found you.
 * You Got Lucky, written with Mike Campbell

 * Well I fought for you; I fought too hard. To do it all again babe, It's gone too far.
 * Change of Heart

 * I don't believe the good times are over. I don't believe the thrill is all gone. Real love is a man's salvation; The weak ones fall, the strong carry on.
 * Straight Into Darkness

Southern Accents (1985)

 * Honey don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow. You know you won't feel this way tomorrow. Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges, Inside a little hollow. I get faced with some things sometimes That are so hard to swallow.
 * Rebels

 * I was born a rebel Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning. Yeah, with one foot in the grave, And one foot on the pedal. I was born a rebel.
 * Rebels

 * I don't feel you anymore. You darken my door. Whatever you're looking for. Hey don't come around here no more.
 * Don't Come Around Here No More, written with Dave Stewart

 * There's a southern accent, where I come from. The young 'uns call it country, the Yankees call it dumb.
 * Southern Accents

 * For just a minute there I was dreaming. For just a minute it was all so real. For just a minute she was standing there, with me.
 * Southern Accents

 * Yeah and it's over before you know it. It all goes by so fast. Yeah, the bad nights last forever, And the good nights don't ever seem to last
 * The Best of Everything

 * Wherever you are tonight, I wish you the best of everything, in the world. And I hope you found Whatever you were looking for.
 * The Best of Everything

Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (1987)

 * Take back your insurance, Baby nothin's guaranteed.
 * Jammin' Me, written with Bob Dylan and Mike Campbell

 * There were times apart, there were times together. I was pledged to her for worse or better. When it mattered most I let her down. That's the way it goes, it'll all work out.
 * It'll All Work Out

 * 'Cause it can feel like perfection, But never all the time. And you don't wanna be alone again. Oh my, my.
 * Ain't Love Strange

 * And no I can't find no reason to explain the way that I feel. I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
 * All Mixed Up

Full Moon Fever (1989)

 * All the vampires walkin' through the valley Move west down Ventura Boulevard. And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows All the good girls are home with broken hearts.
 * Free Fallin', written with Jeff Lynne

 * I wanna glide down over Mulholland. I wanna write her name in the sky. Gonna free fall out into nothing. Gonna leave this world for a while.
 * Free Fallin'

 * Well I won't back down, No I won't back down. You could stand me up at the gates of hell, But I won't back down.
 * I Won't Back Down, written with Jeff Lynne

 * No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down Gonna stand my ground, And I won't back down.
 * I Won't Back Down

 * Well I know what's right, I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin' me around But I'll stand my ground And I won't back down.
 * I Won't Back Down

 * It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down; I had the radio on, I was drivin'. The trees went by, me and Del were singin', Little runaway, I was flyin'. Yeah runnin' down a dream That never would come to me. Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads. I'm runnin' down a dream.
 * Runnin' Down a Dream, written with Jeff Lynne and Mike Campbell

 * I felt so good, like anything was possible. I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes. The last three days the rain was unstoppable. And it was always cold, no sunshine.
 * Runnin' Down a Dream

 * But not me, baby, I've got you to save me. Aw, yer so bad. Best thing I've ever had. In a world gone mad, Yer so bad.
 * Yer So Bad, written with Jeff Lynne

 * I remember her standing in the tall grass and cattails Away from the windows at the end of the day. Watching the men from the landing in the tall hats & coat-tails. She'd never look different, but something would change.
 * A Mind with a Heart of Its Own, written with Jeff Lynne

Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

 * I'm learning to fly, But I ain't got wings. Coming down Is the hardest thing.
 * Learning to Fly, written with Jeff Lynne

 * Well some say life Will beat you down, And break your heart, Steal your crown. So it started out For God-knows-where. I guess I'll know When I get there.
 * Learning to Fly

 * I don't want to end up In a room all alone Don't want to end up someone That I don't even know.
 * King's Highway

 * Into the great wide open, Under them skies of blue. Out in the great wide open, A rebel without a clue.
 * Into the Great Wide Open, written with Jeff Lynne

 * In the dark of the sun will you save me a place? Give me hope, give me comfort, get me to a better place?
 * The Dark Of The Sun, written with Jeff Lynne

 * Here am I a fallen arrow. My load is wide, my street is narrow. My skin is thicker, my heart is tougher. I don't mind workin', but I'm scared to suffer. You know? You know?
 * All or Nothin', written with Mike Campbell and Jeff Lynne

 * Well she grew up hard, and she grew up fast In the age of television. And she made a vow to have it all; It became her new religion.
 * All the Wrong Reasons, written with Jeff Lynne

 * You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it. One day in some far off place I will recognize your face. I won't say good-bye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
 * You & I Will Meet Again

 * I want her more than diamonds, I want her more than gold. I want her more than anything Anyone could hold.
 * Built to Last, written with Jeff Lynne

Greatest Hits (1993)

 * Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain. I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again.
 * Mary Jane's Last Dance

 * Oh, my, my. Oh, hell, yes. Honey, put on that party dress. Buy me a drink, sing me a song. Take me as I come 'cause I can't stay long.
 * Mary Jane's Last Dance

Wildflowers (1994)

 * You belong among the wildflowers. You belong in a boat out at sea. you belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere you feel free.
 * Wildflowers

 * But let me get to the point, let's roll another joint, And turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud. You don't know how it feels, You don't know how it feels, to be me.
 * You Don't Know How it Feels

 * People come, people go. Some grow young, some grow cold.
 * You Don't Know How It Feels

 * Think of me what you will, I've got a little space to fill.
 * You Don't Know How it Feels

 * It's time to move on, time to get going What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing. It's time to move on, it' s time to get going.
 * Time To Move On

 * I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants. You be the girl at the high school dance.
 * You Wreck Me, written with Mike Campbell

 * It's good to be king, If just for a while. To be there in velvet, yea to give 'em a smile. It's good to get high, and never comedown. It's good to be king of your own little town.
 * It's Good To Be King

 * Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
 * It's Good To Be King

 * It's good to be king and have your own way, Get a feeling of peace at the end of the day.
 * It's Good To Be King

 * It's good to be king and have your own world It helps to make friends, it's good to meet girls. A sweet little queen who can't run away; It's good to be king, whatever it pays.
 * It's Good To Be King

 * Excuse me if I Have some place in my mind Where I go time to time.
 * It's Good To Be King

 * I remember feeling this way, You can lose it without knowing. You wake up and you don't notice Which way the wind is blowing
 * Don't Fade On Me, written with Mike Campbell

 * If we don't get to a higher place and Find somebody, can help somebody, Might be nobody no more.
 * A Higher Place

 * I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day, Most things I worry about Never happen anyway.
 * Crawling Back To You

 * You follow your feelings, you follow your dreams; You follow the leader into the trees. And what's in there waiting, neither one of us knows. You gotta keep one eye open the further you go.
 * Wake Up Time

Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)

 * Some days are diamonds. Some days are rocks.
 * Walls (Circus)

 * Baby, you've got a heart so big, It could crush this town. But I can't hold out forever. Even walls fall down.
 * Walls (Circus)

 * I saw an angel, I saw my fate. I can only thank God it was not too late.
 * Angel Dream (No. 4)

 * Now I'm walkin' this street on my own, but she's with me wherever I go.
 * Angel Dream (No. 4)

 * I hope you never need no one, Hope you treasure your independence. I hope you never fall in love With someone like you.
 * Hope You Never

 * No more songs tonight, I'm drivin' to the break of day. No more words tonight, We've got enough to throw away.
 * Supernatural Radio

 * We're overdue for a dream come true. Long time, nothing new. We're overdue for a dream come true.
 * Hung Up And Overdue

Echo (1999)

 * I've got someone who loves me tonight. I've got over a thousand dollars in the bank, And I'm all right.
 * Room At The Top

 * Look deep in the eyes of love And find out what you were looking for.
 * Room At The Top

 * Redemption comes to those who wait, Forgiveness is the key.
 * Lonesome Sundown

 * And I don't want to question or even celebrate All the joy you took and then gave back too late.
 * Echo

 * And I don't want to mean anything to you, I don't want to tempt you to be true.
 * Echo

 * They say be careful who you believe, Be careful who you trust. Did you smile when you pulled the trigger That dropped me in the dust?
 * Billy the Kid

 * Oh my love if I reveal Every secret I've concealed, How many thoughts would you steal, How much of my pain would you feel?
 * Rhino Skin

 * One more night, God I've had to fight To keep my line of sight on what's real One more day I fear I've lost my way I don't know how to say what I feel.
 * One More Day, One More Night

The Last DJ (2002)

 * There goes the last DJ Who plays what he wants to play, And says what he wants to say. Hey, hey, hey. There goes your freedom of choice; There goes the last human voice. There goes the last DJ.
 * The Last DJ

 * As we celebrate mediocrity, All the boys upstairs want to see How much you'll pay for What you used to get for free.
 * The Last DJ

 * There was no use in pretending, No magic left to hear. All the music gave me Was a craving for light beer.
 * Money Becomes King

 * I keep waking up all by myself, With a blue jay in my brain. Flappin' his wings, making me sing, it was just about to rain.
 * Dreamville

 * There was Rock 'N' Roll across the dial. When I think of her, it makes me smile.
 * Dreamville

 * But if you shoot at everyone you see, Can't be my friend 'cause you might shoot at me.
 * When a Kid Goes Bad

 * I can't save you from yourself, you gotta want it.
 * You and Me

 * How about a cheer For all those bad girls And all the boys That play that rock and roll? They love it Like you love Jesus. It does the same thing To their souls.
 * Have Love Will Travel

 * And you may think it's all over. But there'll be more just like me Who won't give in; Who'll rise again. Can't stop a man from dreaming.
 * Can't Stop the Sun, written with Mike Campbell

Highway Companion (2006)

 * And it's hard to say Who you are these days. But you run on anyway, Don't you baby?
 * Saving Grace

 * Last time through I hid my tracks. So well I could not get back. Yeah my way was hard to find. Can't sell your soul for peace of mind.
 * Square One

 * Always had more dogs than bones.
 * Square One

 * You're flirting with time baby Flirting with time, but maybe, Time baby, is catching up with you.
 * Flirting with Time

 * So if I come to your door, let me sleep on your floor. I'll give you all I have and a little more.
 * Down South

 * Create myself down south. Impress all the women. Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens. ear seersucker and white linens.
 * Down South

 * I'm gonna give her all my soul. I'm gonna play her Rock 'N' Roll.
 * Jack

 * I can work, I can travel, I can sleep anywhere, Cross every border with nothing to declare. You can look back babe, but it's best not to stare.
 * Big Weekend

 * She's got nothing to hide, And she hides it so well. Keeps broken dreams To fix up and sell.
 * Damaged By Love

 * There's rain on the road And the faithful have gone. In a crowd all alone, Walking 'round in a song.
 * Damaged By Love

 * Well, they raised that horse to be a jumper He was owned by a mid-west bible thumper. His preacher was a Louisiana drummer. Took all winter, to get through the summer.
 * Ankle Deep

 * He was caught up in a lie he half-believed, Found her hiding high in the family tree. Washed his hands, and put her 'cross his knee. She said "daddy, you've been a mother to me."
 * Ankle Deep

Mojo (2010)

Watching the coast Suddenly I know What I want the most And I want to tell you Still I hold back I need some time Get my life on track. I know that look on your face But there's somethin' lucky about this place And there's somethin' good comin' For you and me Somethin' good comin' There has to be.
 * I'm watching the water
 * "Something Good Coming"

And there's somethin' lucky about this place There's somethin' good comin' Just over the hill Somethin' good comin' I know it will And I'm in for the long run Wherever it goes Ridin' the river Wherever it goes.
 * I know so well the look on your face
 * "Something Good Coming"

title: Tom Petty