“I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.”
“I believe that a strong man makes a strong country.”
“My heart is green, yellow, blue, and white.”
“Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.”
“Let’s be proud of our homeland once again!”
“Good citizens deserve the means to defend themselves.”
“I am one of the most attacked persons.”
“I’d rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.”
“We are going to unite the people, rescue the family, respect religions and our Judeo-Christian tradition, combat gender ideology, conserving our values.”
“I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs.”
“Everywhere I go, people embrace me and treat me like a national hero. The people in the streets are asking for the return of the military. They ask, ‘When are you coming back?’”
“We are going to change Brazil!”
“This cowardly business of international NGOs like WWF and so many others from England sticking their noses into Brazil is going to end!”
“I am not a troglodyte.”
“We will preserve the environment.”
“In every war, innocent people die.”
“We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.”
“Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.”
“I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history… We want to govern by example.”
“We do not want a Bolivarian America.”
“No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.”
“I am in favour of a dictatorship.”
“We will do business with the Chinese – but we will not hand our territory over to anybody!”
“We cannot allow the indiscriminate entry of all those who come here only because they wanted to come.”
“It’s these leftwing people, who always put themselves above the rest, who are fascists.”
“You’ll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.”
“Those who didn’t vote for me don’t need to worry – they won’t be persecuted.”
“We are taking over a completely broken Brazil. We’ve never had such a major ethical, moral, and economic crisis, and we want to get out of this quagmire.”
“I ask myself, ‘Why can’t a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?’ Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station… and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.”
“More than safeguarding someone’s life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people.”
“In Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.”
“It doesn’t matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We’re all equal… We can’t take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.”
“What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.”
“We’re in Brazil here: Great Brazil just like the Great America of our dear Trump.”
“If we are competing in elections, it’s because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.”
“We are the voice of freedom.”
“We do not want socialism.”
“Together with this Brazilian people, we will build a new nation.”
“We are the true Brazil.”
“We need to unify Brazil, to pacify it.”
“Let’s make Brazil Great!”
“All of us have a mission here on Earth.”
“We distrust the electronic vote here.”
“I would like to have had that experience of combat. I would have liked to.”
“If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.”
“Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.”
“Elections won’t change anything in this country.”
“Every honest citizen, man or woman, if they want to have a weapon in their homes – depending on certain criteria – should be able to have one.”
“Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here.”
“We can’t continue with this social democracy here in Brazil.”
“This history of a secular state doesn’t exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.”
“God above all.”
“The minority must bow to the majority.”
“It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it’s a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.”
“I don’t want any country buying up Brazil, but we will do business with all countries, and China is an exceptional partner.”
“A country the size of Brazil can’t be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.”
“I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.”
“We can’t keep flirting with communism and socialism.”
“China is taking over Brazil, and that is worrying. They are investing in mining, agriculture, energy, ports, and airports.”
“Israel is a sovereign state. If you decide on your capital city, we will act in accordance.”
“You do not negotiate with terrorists.”
“I will not accept an election result that is not my own victory.”
“If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.”
“I spent 17 years in the Brazilian army.”
“I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.”
“I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.”
“Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to advance the agribusiness?”
“Young people in Brazil for a long time have been an easy prey for the Left, from communists in Brazil. Social media liberated them from that.”
“We are winning the hearts of these young people out there.”
“We don’t have a big party. We don’t have election funding. We don’t have television time.”
“We are going to unite this people. We will unite whites and blacks, homosexuals and heterosexuals… We will unite bosses and employees, and we won’t plant the seed of discord between them.”
“We are going to change the destiny of Brazil.”
“If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.”
“Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.”
“I can’t just suddenly become ‘Little Peace and Love Jair’… I’ve got to carry on being the same person.”
“This idea of, oh, poor little black person, oh, poor little poor person, oh, poor little woman, oh, poor little indigenous person – everybody’s a poor little something! I don’t try and please everybody.”
“If I were racist, I wouldn’t be so crazy as to declare it on television.”
“Brazil is a paradise.”
“We will invest heavily in safety and security… preserve the environment… make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.”
“We want democracy and peace.”
“We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest, and create jobs.”
“We seek to better integrate Brazil into the world… and eliminate unfair trade practices and uncertainty for foreign trade flows.”
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