“We are prepared to give blood to save Venezuela from American Imperialists.”

"To those who say that the United States is only interested in our oil, I ask those people:

What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted from us?

The recipe for Arepas?"

They can even capture him from 3300 kilometers away? Damn! Shame on myself

"We've seen how our adversaries all over the world are exploiting and extracting resources from Africa, from every other country. They're not going to do it in the Western Hemisphere. That is NOT going to happen under President Trump... He is serious about it."

“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States.

What we will not allow is for Venezuela’s oil industry to be controlled by adversaries of the United States.

You have to understand: why does China need Venezuela’s oil? Why does Russia need it? Why does Iran need it? They aren’t even on this continent.”

"There's not a war. We are at war against drug trafficking organizations, not a war against Venezuela."