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Jair Bolsonaro
164 quotes
“I support a dictatorship.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Chamber of Deputies on 24 June 1993. Conversations/Jair Bolsonaro; A Soldier Turned Politician Wants To Give Brazil Back to Army Rule. The News York Times (25 July 1993).
“I sympathize with Fujimori. Fujimorization is the way out for Brazil.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversations/Jair Bolsonaro; A Soldier Turned Politician Wants To Give Brazil Back to Army Rule. The News York Times (25 July 1993).
“The Military Police should have killed 1,000 rather than 111 prisoners in the Carandiru massacre.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Coronel Ubiratan deve perder a imunidade. Folha de S.Paulo (3 October 1997).
“Pinochet should have killed more people.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Veja essa. Veja (3 December 1998).
“I'm in favor of torture. You know that. And the people are too.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).
“Through the vote, you'll change nothing in this country. Nothing, absolutely nothing. We'll only get change, unfortunately, when we go into a civil war here someday and do a work the military regime didn't do, killing as much as thirty thousand people, starting with FHC. It's all right if some innocent people die. Innocent people die in many wars.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) at the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 Octob…
“There is no doubt. I would launch a coup on the same day. [Congress] doesn't work and I'm sure that at least 90% of the population would applaud. Congress nowadays does nothing; it votes only for what the president wants. If he's who rules, who decides and who gloats above the Congress, then let the coup be launched, let it be a dictatorship.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999 about what he would do on the first day as president of Brazil. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 Octobe…
“It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).
“I can't even go to Paraguay with my salary.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).
“He's a hope to Latin America and I would like if that philosophy came to Brazil. I think he's unique. I intend to go to Venezuela and to try to meet him. I want to pass a week there and to try to schedule an audience. I think he'll do what the militaries did in Brazil in 1964, with much more strength. I just hope the opposition doesn't go into a guerrilla warfare like they did here.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Hugo Chávez. "É uma esperança para a AL". O Estado de S. Paulo (4 September 1999).
“I never hit my ex-wife. But many times I wanted to shoot her.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eu defendo a tortura". IstoÉ Gente (14 February 2000).
“I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara. There would be no human rights in this case. There would be pau-de-arara, beating. The same thing for kidnappers. The guy must be broken to open his mouth.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eu defendo a tortura". IstoÉ Gente (14 February 2000).
“I think execution by firing squad is even an honorable thing to certain people.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. "Eu defendo a tortura". IstoÉ Gente (14 February 2000).
“I will not fight against it nor discriminate, but if I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them up.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apoio de FHC à união gay causa protestos. Folha de S.Paulo (19 May 2002).
“I would never rape you, because you don't deserve it.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To federal deputy Maria do Rosário at the Chamber of Deputies in November 2003. Brazil’s Trump?. US News (19 January 2017).
“Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be my problem.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution that would ban nepotism in public sectors. Câmara discute nesta terça projeto que proíbe nepotismo nos três Poderes. Gazeta do Povo (5 March 2007).
“The only mistake of the dictatorship was torturing and not killing.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Militares protestam no Rio contra possibilidade de revisão da Lei de Anistia. Agência Brasil (7 August 2008).
“Those that look for bones are dogs.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poster against relatives of people forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship. Cartaz contra desaparecidos do Araguaia irrita deputados. Estadão (28 May 2009).
“If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the program Participação Popular on TV Câmara on 17 November 2010. Deputado federal defende na TV agressões físicas para mudar "filho gayzinho". Folha de S.Paulo (25 November 2010).
“Preta, I’m not going to discuss promiscuity with anyone. I don't run that risk because my children are well educated and they don't live in a promiscuous environment such as is, unfortunately, yours.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to the singer Preta Gil after asked about what he would do if his son fell in love with a black woman on 28 March 2011 in an interview to the program CQC on Band. Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro's mos…
“I wouldn't enter an airplane flown by a quota pilot or accept to be operated by a quota doctor.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the recent adoption of racial and socioeconomic affirmative action in universities. Interview to the program CQC on Band. Bolsonaro diz na TV que seus filhos não 'correm risco' de namorar negras ou virar ga…
“I would beat him. You can be sure of that. If acting with energy is torturing, he'll be tortured.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About if one of his sons used drugs, in an interview to the program CQC on Band. Bolsonaro diz na TV que seus filhos não 'correm risco' de namorar negras ou virar gays porque foram 'muito bem educados'; O Globo (29 Marc…
“I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Na Câmara, Bolsonaro se diz vítima de preconceito por ser heterossexual. G1 (27 April 2011).
“It's a mess. The next steps are the adoption of children and the legalization of pedophilia.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After same-sex marriage being legalized by the Supreme Federal Court. Bolsonaro: "Próximo passo é legalizar pedofilia", diz sobre decisão do STF. Jornal do Brasil (5 May 2011).
“Not right, [but] far-right.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About his political ideology. "A minoria tem que se curvar". O Tempo (22 May 2011).
“PSOL is party of dicks and faggots. I will respond to the senator with toilet paper.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After senator Marinor Brito (Socialism and Liberty Party — PSOL) asked for an investigation into Bolsonaro in 2011. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. The…
“I would be incapable of loving a gay son. I will not be a hypocrite. I would prefer a son of mine dying in an accident than being seen around with some moustached guy.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inverview to Playboy magazine in 2011. Conservative’s Star Rises in Brazil as Polarizing Views Tap Into Discontent. The New York Times (7 May 2016).
“Admit your love for homosexuals.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To president Dilma Rousseff, about the School without Homophobia project, at the Chamber of Deputies on 24 November 2011. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonar…
“Yes, I’m homophobic – and very proud of it.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in 2013. Brazil’s fearful LGBT community prepares for a ‘proud homophobe’. The Guardian (27 October 2018).
“Congressmen should not take the bus.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Parlamentar não deve andar de ônibus', diz deputado Jair Bolsonaro. O Dia (12 August 2013).
“This case is all about creating a public sob story. There is no homophobic behaviour in Brazil. Those who die, 90% of homosexual deaths, they die in drug related situations, in prostitution, or even killed by their own partners. I went into battle with the gays because the government proposed anti-homophobia classes for the junior grades, but that would actively stimulate homosexuality in children from 6 years old. This is not normal.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the kidnapping and murder of the teenager Alexandre Ivo by skinheads in 2010, in an interview to Stephen Fry in October 2013. Jair Bolsonaro provoca polêmica em documentário do ator Stephen Fry sobre homofobia. Ve…
“Your culture is different to ours. We're not ready for all this in Brazil because no father would ever take pride in having a gay son. Pride? Happiness? Celebrating if his son turns out gay? No way. Look, you have to have some sort of moral compass bearing in your life. They want to reach our children in order to turn the children into gay adults to satisfy their sexuality in the future. So these are the fundamentalist homosexual groups that are trying to take over society.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Stephen Fry in October 2013. Jair Bolsonaro provoca polêmica em documentário do ator Stephen Fry sobre homofobia. Veja SP (23 October 2013).
“To not like is not the same as to hate. You don't like the Taliban, do you? We Brazilian people don't like homosexuals, but we don't persecute and hunt homosexuals.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Stephen Fry in October 2013. Jair Bolsonaro provoca polêmica em documentário do ator Stephen Fry sobre homofobia. Veja SP (23 October 2013).
“We even have a gay pride march and we're thinking of having a heterosexual pride also. You'll not be invited.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Stephen Fry in October 2013. Jair Bolsonaro provoca polêmica em documentário do ator Stephen Fry sobre homofobia. Veja SP (23 October 2013).
“Brazilian prisons are wonderful places ... they’re places for people to pay for their sins, not live the life of Reilly in a spa. Those who rape, kidnap and kill are going there to suffer, not attend a holiday camp.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In February 2014. Who is Jair Bolsonaro? Brazil's far-right president in his own words. The Guardian (29 October 2018).
“Are we obliged to give these bastards [criminals] a good life? They spend their whole lives fucking us and those of us who work have to give them a good life in prison. They should fuck themselves, full stop. That’s it, dammit!”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On 11 February 2014. A única coisa boa do Maranhão é o presídio de Pedrinhas, diz Bolsonaro. UOL (11 February 2014); Who is Jair Bolsonaro? Brazil's far-right president in his own words. The Guardian (29 October 2018).
“Are [gays] demigods? ... Just because someone has sex with his excretory organ, it doesn’t make him better than anyone else.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On 11 February 2014. A única coisa boa do Maranhão é o presídio de Pedrinhas, diz Bolsonaro. UOL (11 February 2014).
“You're an idiot. [...] You are an illiterate. [...] You're censored. [...] You're an ignorant. [...] I don't give a shit about you.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to the reporter Manuela Borges after asked about the 1964 coup d'état denial on 1 April 2014. Câmara suspende sessão sobre golpe militar após tumulto no plenário. G1 (1 April 2014); Jair Bolsonaro se irrita e…
“I would not rape you. You don’t merit that. Stay here to hear this!”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To federal deputy Maria do Rosário at the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 2014. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. The Intercept (11 December 2014).
“She doesn't deserve it [to be raped] because she's very bad, because she's very ugly. She's not my type, I'd never rape her. I'm not a rapist, but if I was, I wouldn't rape her because she doesn't deserve it.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Zero Hora newspaper on 10 December 2014, about federal deputy Maria do Rosário. Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro's most controversial quotes. Yahoo!, 29 September 2018.
“The day of losers.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the United Nation’s International Human Rights Day. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. The Intercept (11 December 2014).
“If you want a baby so badly, why don’t you go and rent a woman’s belly? Don’t worry, soon homosexuals will be able to have a uterus implanted in them and then you can have a baby.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. The Intercept (11 December 2014).
“The scum of the world is arriving in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems to solve.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Senegalese, Haitians, Iranians, Bolivians and Syrians in an interview to Jornal Opção on 17 September 2015. Conservative’s Star Rises in Brazil as Polarizing Views Tap Into Discontent. The New York Times (7 May 20…
“I wouldn't hire them [women] with the same salary. But there are many women who are competent.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About equal pay for women. Bolsonaro diz que não pagaria a mulheres o mesmo salário dos homens. RedeTV! (15 February 2016).
“If I were a cadet in the Agulhas Negras Military Academy and saw you on the street I would whistle at you.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Ellen Page in March 2016. "Você foge a normalidade", diz Jair Bolsonaro a Ellen Page. O Povo (11 March 2016).
“Over time, due to liberal habit, drugs, women also working, the number of homosexuals has really increased. I also tend to say if your son starts hanging out with certain people with a certain behavior, he'll adopt that sort of behavior. He'll think it's normal.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Ellen Page in March 2016. "Você foge a normalidade", diz Jair Bolsonaro a Ellen Page. O Povo (11 March 2016).
“I think you're, pardon me, escaping normality. We have to have a north here. You're close to, with all due respect, the absurd theory. Even you with your partner, right?, won't make children. If you'll have one it will depend on something donated by us, heteros, us, men.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Ellen Page in March 2016. "Você foge a normalidade", diz Jair Bolsonaro a Ellen Page. O Povo (11 March 2016).
“They lost in 1964, and now they have lost in 2016. [...] To the memory of Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the dread of Dilma Rousseff.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, accused of torture and killing during the military dictatorship, while voting for Rousseff's impeachment on 17 April 2016. Rousseff taunt opens old wounds of dictatorship era…
“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!”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to Vice. Meet Brazil's Donald Trump: He's Deliberately Outrageous and He Wants to Be President. Vice (27 April 2016).
“I don't regret anything.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About insulting Maria do Rosário in an interview to Vice. Meet Brazil's Donald Trump: He's Deliberately Outrageous and He Wants to Be President. Vice (27 April 2016).