No One Can Wipe Away The Injustices

Only In My Case, When My Presidency Ends, I Will Go Back To My Home Industrial City Town, 800 Meters From My Local Trade Union That Projected Me My Political Life. And If I Fail, When I Go Back To My Hometown, It's Going To Take Another Century For Another Worker, Another Member Of The Working Class To Reach The Presidency, Because People Are Going To Say That The Workers Do Not Have The Competency To Run A Country.

Brazil Is In A Solid Position. In The Past, If The United States Sneezed, We Caught Pneumonia. Today, If The United States Sneezes, We Sneeze Too.

Brazil Has Rediscovered Itself, And This Rediscovery Is Being Expressed In Its People's Enthusiasm And Their Desire To Mobilize To Face The Huge Problems That Lie Ahead Of Us.

We've Advanced In The Construction Of A True Free-trade Area Across South America... What's Needed Now Is Less Rhetoric And More Action.

A Long Time Ago I Learned Not To Put The Blame For Backwardness In Brazil On The Us. We Have To Blame Ourselves. Our Backwardness Is Caused By An Elite Which For A Century Didn't Think About The Majority And Subordinated Itself To Foreign Interests.