Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian politician Jair Bolsonaro.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 1 January 2019. He was elected in 2018 as a member of the conservative Social Liberal Party before cutting ties with it. From 1991 to 2018, Bolsonaro served in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro.
More than safeguarding someone's life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people.
Those who didn't vote for me don't need to worry - they won't be persecuted.
This idea of, oh, poor little black person, oh, poor little poor person, oh, poor little woman, oh, poor little indigenous person - everybody's a poor little something! I don't try and please everybody.
Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.
My heart is green, yellow, blue, and white.
I'd rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.
I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs.
I am in favour of a dictatorship.
We will do business with the Chinese - but we will not hand our territory over to anybody!
We are going to change Brazil!
We cannot allow the indiscriminate entry of all those who come here only because they wanted to come.
I am not a troglodyte.
We are winning the hearts of these young people out there.
We are the voice of freedom.
It's these leftwing people, who always put themselves above the rest, who are fascists.
You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.
Good citizens deserve the means to defend themselves.
We need to unify Brazil, to pacify it.
Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.
We can't continue with this social democracy here in Brazil.
All of us have a mission here on Earth.
I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.
I will not accept an election result that is not my own victory.
In every war, innocent people die.
I believe that a strong man makes a strong country.
I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.
We are going to unite the people, rescue the family, respect religions and our Judeo-Christian tradition, combat gender ideology, conserving our values.
Brazil is a paradise.
Let's make Brazil Great!
I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.
This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.
We do not want a Bolivarian America.
If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.
I don't want any country buying up Brazil, but we will do business with all countries, and China is an exceptional partner.
We are the true Brazil.
We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest, and create jobs.
We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.
I ask myself, 'Why can't a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?' Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station... and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.
This cowardly business of international NGOs like WWF and so many others from England sticking their noses into Brazil is going to end!
We do not want socialism.
Let's be proud of our homeland once again!
Together with this Brazilian people, we will build a new nation.
The minority must bow to the majority.
We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.
It doesn't matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We're all equal... We can't take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.
I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.
No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.
In Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.
Everywhere I go, people embrace me and treat me like a national hero. The people in the streets are asking for the return of the military. They ask, 'When are you coming back?'
What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.
Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.
We are going to unite this people. We will unite whites and blacks, homosexuals and heterosexuals... We will unite bosses and employees, and we won't plant the seed of discord between them.
Young people in Brazil for a long time have been an easy prey for the Left, from communists in Brazil. Social media liberated them from that.
We're in Brazil here: Great Brazil just like the Great America of our dear Trump.
I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.
It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it's a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.
If we are competing in elections, it's because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.
We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.
We are taking over a completely broken Brazil. We've never had such a major ethical, moral, and economic crisis, and we want to get out of this quagmire.