All Quotes by Jair Bolsonaro
“I support a dictatorship.”
“I sympathize with Fujimori. Fujimorization is the way out for Brazil.”
“The Military Police should have killed 1,000 rather than 111 prisoners in the Carandiru massacre.”
“Pinochet should have killed more people.”
“I'm in favor of torture. You know that. And the people are too.”
“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.”
“It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can.”
“I can't even go to Paraguay with my salary.”
“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.”
“I never hit my ex-wife. But many times I wanted to shoot her.”
“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.”
“I will not fight against it nor discriminate, but if I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them up.”
“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.”
“The only mistake of the dictatorship was torturing and not killing.”
“Those that look for bones are dogs.”
“If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior.”
“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.”
“I wouldn't enter an airplane flown by a quota pilot or accept to be operated by a quota doctor.”
“I would beat him. You can be sure of that. If acting with energy is torturing, he'll be tortured.”
“I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals.”
“It's a mess. The next steps are the adoption of children and the legalization of pedophilia.”
“PSOL is party of dicks and faggots. I will respond to the senator with toilet paper.”
“I would be incapable of loving a gay son. I wouldn't be a hypocrite. I prefer that he die in an accident than show up with some guy with a moustache.”
“Congressmen should not take the bus.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We even have a gay pride march and we're thinking of having a heterosexual pride also. You'll not be invited.”
“I would not rape you. You don’t merit that. Stay here to hear this!”
“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.”
“The day of losers.”
“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.”
“The scum of the world is arriving in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems to solve.”
“I wouldn't hire them [women] with the same salary. But there are many women who are competent.”
“If I were a cadet in the Agulhas Negras Military Academy and saw you on the street I would whistle at you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 regret anything.”
“Since we are a Christian country, God above all. This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian and the minority that is against it can leave. Let's make a country for majority! The minority must bow to the majority. Law must exist to defend the majority! The minority suits itself [to the law] or just disappears.”
“I was at a quilombo. The slightest afrodescendant weighed 7 arrobas [230 pounds]. They don't do anything. I don't think they even serve for procreation anymore.”
“There will not be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous or quilombo reservations.”
“Has anyone ever seen any Japanese begging? It's a race that has self-respect.”
“I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out.”
“No father wants to come home and find his son playing with a doll because of the influence of his school.”
“A policeman who doesn’t kill isn’t a policeman.”
“I used that housing allowance money to fuck people. Are you satisfied? Because that's the answer you deserve.”
“What debt [of slavery]? I never enslaved anyone in my life. Look, if you really look at history, the Portuguese didn’t even step foot in Africa. The blacks themselves turned over the slaves.”
“With distance education, you help to combat Marxism.”
“Brazil above all, God above everyone.”
“With us [in office], there will be no such human rights politicking. These bandits will die, because we will not send resources from the government to them. Instead of peace, these NGOs do a disservice to our Brazil.”
“We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America.”
“Is it short there?”