Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Brazilian former trade union leader and politician, who served as President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2011.
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"Give me a chance as President and I will do in 4 years what the elite didn't do in 40." (In Juiz de Fora, August 1994)
"The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work." – about his second term as president (October 29, 2006 )
"A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests." (The Guardian, May 31, 2007 )
"This is a government that has not been putting the dirt under the carpet." (June 23, 2005, during a nationally televised speech)
"Hope has defeated fear." (After his victory in 2002 Presidential elections in Brazil)
This is a crisis that was caused by people, white with blue eyes. And before the crisis they looked as if they knew everything about economics.
"Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too." (Financial Times, July 7, 2006 )
"The government tries to do what's easy because what's hard is hard."(June 17, 2004 in a speech)
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