Lula’s phrases
Some phrases by President Lula. More recent phrases at the top, older phrases at the bottom.
- Sept. 1st. 2007. “No one has more ethics and moral than the Worker’s Party“. Lula at the opening of the Worker’s Party 3rd Convention, just a few days after the Supreme Court accepted criminal charges against ex-leaders of Worker’s Party.
- August 16th. “They are young, they have no political awareness”. This is how Lula reacted to a group of students who were booing him. Lula was opening a new public school in Campos, Rio de Janeiro; ever since Lula was booed in a public event in July, the audience who is allowed to come close to Lula is carefully screened; even so, a group of students managed to break through the security. Lula criticized in public those who dared to manifest opposition to him. See video.
- August 2nd. “The crisis in the air sector is like a dog with many owners; the dog starves, because nobody looks after him”. Here.
- August 2nd. “The crisis in the air sector is like a person who lives close to us, appear to be healthy and suddenly shows a metastasis, nobody noticed the cancer”. Here.
- July 26th. 2007 “I fear air flights. Whenever the airplane closes the door, I surrender my life to God”. Said when he was giving office to new Minister of Defense, a few days after the most deadly air accident in Brazil. Read here.
- April 15th 2004. “Reading, for a child, is like, for those of us older, walking on a rolling mat.” In the vision of the President, who was never seen reading a book, reading is more of a sacrifice than a pleasure. He said so at the opening of the International Fair Book, in São Paulo.
- March 2004. Lula said that “money found is yours to keep”. A man who cleans toillets in the airport of Brasilia finds a briefcase with US$ 10,000 and returns it to the owner. The man gains notoriety and Lula arranges a meeting with him. In front of TV cameras (this dialogue was aired by TV Globo), Lula talks to the man: “Why did you return this money? Didn’t your colleagues mock on you?”; the man replies: “Yes, some did, but I returned the money because that was the right thing to do”; to which Lula replies: “…ah, but money you found, money without an owner”. See bottom of this post for a transcript of the dialogue (Lula asking why he returned the money); at this post, a blogger revives the case.
