Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian politician Michel Temer.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial. At the age of 75, he is the oldest person to have taken the office.
I want to regain the trust of the Brazilian people and all the sectors of society.
It's necessary to give birth to hope again.
I want to construct a better country for each Brazilian: pacified, just, without hate or rancor.
A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.
Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.
I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.
Embraer is Brazilian. It represents Brazil very well abroad.
My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.
Brazil's commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.
Nobody is more capable of detecting eventual economic fluctuation than women, since they monitor the increases and decreases of their home's budgets.
I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.
Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.
Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.
The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
I realize I lack popular recognition.
Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.
I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?
I am not doomed.
I fear no accusations.
Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.
Protests are part of our democracy.
I've heard, 'Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn't know how to govern.' Gibberish!
Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.
I don't need to make political gestures or take steps to get re-elected.
Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside about what will happen.
My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.
We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.
In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.
Do invest in Brazil, and you shall not regret it.
My proposal is one of national reconciliation, of national pacification. I've already said this many times, but what I propose is a government that could act as a national salvation.
I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.
We will battle day and night to pass social security reform.
We are leaders in hydropower and bioenergy.
I will not resign.
Brazil has no parties, only acronyms.
When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.
Nobody is more capable to pointing out the unbalances in, let's say, supermarket prices than women.
It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.