"This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit."

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

"I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people."

"Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere."

"I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community."

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."