We're firming up a financial alliance with important banks in Qatar, that are giving us sufficient oxygen to cover the fall in oil revenue, we're raising financing for several billion dollars, not only for 2015, but also for 2016.

President Nicolas Maduro

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Today we are going to sign (for) an additional investment of $500 million in the Orinoco belt from Rosneft which is going to raise its participation up to 40 percent.

President Nicolas Maduro

I call on the Venezuelan people to be alert and to turn ourselves into millions of cooperating patriots to guarantee the country's peace.

President Nicolas Maduro

He doesn't respect the noble sentiment of millions of Venezuelans, the noble memory of a man who died.

President Nicolas Maduro

We offered within six months ... to propose a method, a system to change government by constitutional means, we will do exactly that!

President Nicolas Maduro

We have to quickly get used to the country's new political dynamics, tomorrow, after a lot of consulting, I will announce the revolutionary government for this new stage.

President Nicolas Maduro

Why does the State Department and the U.S. government care about the installation of the National Assembly?

President Nicolas Maduro

We're facing a large-scale crisis that is going to generate a power struggle between two poles: the patriots and the anti-patriots, a conflict which is going to create big tensions ... It's a counter-revolutionary crisis.

President Nicolas Maduro

I wanted to build 500,000 houses next year. But now I'm doubting that. I asked for your support and you didn't give it to me.

President Nicolas Maduro

I feel at peace with my conscience because everything we have done has been for the protection of the country.

President Nicolas Maduro

If the managers are committing sabotage, here's the head of Sebin (Venezuela's intelligence service) and he'll put them in prison right away, enough of the bourgeoisie. Imprison them.

President Nicolas Maduro

Revenue in dollars entering the country from oil and other things this year decreased 64 percent, nearly a financial catastrophe, if there were an oligarch sitting here, what would he have done? Frozen salaries, pensions? Would he have maintained (housing, welfare)? He would have said 'No, there are no more houses.'.

President Nicolas Maduro

We have a great advantage, and we can say it without false modest... by President Nicolas Maduro

We have a great advantage, and we can say it without false modesty: we are better than they are.

President Nicolas Maduro

I think we're going to achieve it, sometimes processes are slow, but we've already achieved the Oct. 21 experts' meeting.

President Nicolas Maduro

Today they sabotaged another very important (energy) plant in Fal... by President Nicolas Maduro

Today they sabotaged another very important (energy) plant in Falcon.

President Nicolas Maduro

We have agreed to name ambassadors. by President Nicolas Maduro

We have agreed to name ambassadors.

President Nicolas Maduro

In the case of Venezuela we will be returning our ambassador immediately to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.

President Nicolas Maduro

I have accepted, let's meet, let's restore dialogue, respect, co-existence of models: you are a capitalist, right-wing, I am socialist, Bolivarian, Chavista.

President Nicolas Maduro

The plan is to consolidate territories of peace wherever the OLP operations take place, to free the people of this paramilitary stain and these criminal gangs that sully our people.

President Nicolas Maduro

We're working towards a special OPEC meeting, in coming days we'll announce .... We're making contacts with OPEC governments, we're evaluating the possibility that a very high ranking OPEC meeting be called, and that in coordination with the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin, we can advance in taking a series of actions to defend the oil market in the face of this latest fall.

President Nicolas Maduro

You all know that a military general of the United States doesn't predict, he orders and the battered Venezuelan right-wing executes.

President Nicolas Maduro