Bolsonaro: "What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "If I were racist, I wouldn't be so crazy as to declare it on television."

Bolsonaro: "We are going to unite the people, rescue the family, respect religions and our Judeo-Christian tradition, combat gender ideology, conserving our values."

Bolsonaro: "I am in favor of a dictatorship."

Bolsonaro: "Every honest citizen, man or woman, if they want to have a weapon in their homes - depending on certain criteria - should be able to have one."

Bolsonaro: "Those who didn't vote for me don't need to worry - they won't be persecuted."

Bolsonaro: "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?'"

Bolsonaro: "This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "Let's be proud of our homeland once again!"

Bolsonaro: "We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress."

Bolsonaro: "The minority must bow to the majority."

Bolsonaro: "I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "We're in Brazil here: Great Brazil just like the Great America of our dear Trump."

Bolsonaro: "If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem."

Bolsonaro: "Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people."

Bolsonaro: "I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs."

Bolsonaro: "We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time."

Bolsonaro: "Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals."

Bolsonaro: "Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to advance the agribusiness?"

Bolsonaro: "We can't continue with this social democracy here in Brazil."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "I believe that a strong man makes a strong country."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "I'd rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache."

Bolsonaro: "This cowardly business of international NGOs like WWF and so many others from England sticking their noses into Brazil is going to end!"

Bolsonaro: "More than safeguarding someone's life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote."

Bolsonaro: "We cannot allow the indiscriminate entry of all those who come here only because they wanted to come."

Bolsonaro: "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."

Bolsonaro: "In every war, innocent people die."