Jair Bolsonaro quotes

Jair Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the President of Brazil. Known for his conservative views and controversial statements, he has been a polarizing figure in national and international politics. He has influenced Brazil’s political landscape significantly through his policies and leadership style. Here are 117 of his quotes:

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world. (Jair Bolsonaro)
I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor. View quote
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I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came. View quote
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We're going to put an end to all the activisms of Brazil. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's a mess. The next steps are the adoption of children and the legalization of pedophilia. View quote
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I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals. View quote
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We even have a gay pride march and we're thinking of having a heterosexual pride also. You'll not be invited. View quote
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It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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I will not fight against it nor discriminate, but if I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them up. View quote
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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. [...] Between a man and a young woman, what will the entrepreneur think? 'Damn, this woman's got a ring on her finger, she'll be pregnant soon, she'll be on maternity leave for six months...' [...] Who's going to pay the bill? The employer. In the end it's deducted from social security but he says "the work rhythm is broken. And when she returns, she'll take a month-long vacation. In the end, she works five months in one year." [...] I'm a liberal. If I want to hire you at my company paying you R$ 2,000.00 a month and Ms. Mary paying her R$ 1,500.00, and if Ms. Mary doesn't want to earn that amount, she must look for another job! If you think you also are not earning so much, look for another job. It is I who am paying you; I am the boss. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would beat him. You can be sure of that. If acting with energy is torturing, he'll be tortured. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're going to shoot all the PT supporters in Acre. View quote
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I would never rape you, because you don't deserve it. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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I don't regret anything. View quote
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So what? I'm sorry. What do you want me to do? My name's Messiah, but I can't work miracles. View quote
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Look, working nine, ten years old at the farm, I was not harmed at all. When a nine-year-old, ten-year-old goes to work somewhere, it's full of people there. Now, when I'm smoking a crack pipe, nobody says anything. [...] But I want to say that I, my older brother, a sister of mine, a little younger, at that age, eight, nine, ten, twelve years, worked on the farm. View quote
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