“Let’s stop talking about crisis. Let’s work instead.”
“I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.”
“I will not resign.”
“Impeachment is allowed under Brazil’s Constitution.”
“Brazil’s commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.”
“Every time there’s an institutional issue like impeachment, there’s concern from the outside about what will happen.”
“I fear no accusations.”
“I am not doomed.”
“Protests are part of our democracy.”
“Nobody is more capable to pointing out the unbalances in, let’s say, supermarket prices than women.”
“The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.”
“When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.”
“Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.”
“My first word for the people of Brazil is the word ‘confidence.’ Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.”
“I’ve heard, ‘Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn’t know how to govern.’ Gibberish!”
“My father always said that Brazil is the place to ‘make America,’ and by ‘make America’ he meant the place to grow – to prosper.”
“It’s necessary to give birth to hope again.”
“I realize I lack popular recognition.”
“I don’t need to make political gestures or take steps to get re-elected.”
“Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.”
“A president shouldn’t tell the judiciary what to do.”
“I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.”
“I want to regain the trust of the Brazilian people and all the sectors of society.”
“My proposal is one of national reconciliation, of national pacification. I’ve already said this many times, but what I propose is a government that could act as a national salvation.”
“Brazil has no parties, only acronyms.”
“Do invest in Brazil, and you shall not regret it.”
“We will battle day and night to pass social security reform.”
“I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone’s silence.”
“Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.”
“In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.”
“We are on the side of the Venezuelan people.”
“I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?”
“It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.”
“Nobody is more capable of detecting eventual economic fluctuation than women, since they monitor the increases and decreases of their home’s budgets.”
“We are leaders in hydropower and bioenergy.”
“I want to construct a better country for each Brazilian: pacified, just, without hate or rancor.”
“Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.”
“Embraer is Brazilian. It represents Brazil very well abroad.”
“We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.”
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