In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.
No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.
We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
It is a coup because while the Brazilian Constitution allows for impeachment, it's necessary for the person to have committed what we call high crimes and misdemeanors. And President Dilma did not commit a high crime nor misdemeanor. Therefore, what is happening is an attempt by some to take power by disrespecting the popular vote.
No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.
If there was one last thing I could do in my life, it would be to help Dilma turn this country around, with the decency that the Brazilian public deserves.
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage.
It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.
You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.
Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
