“The Indians do not speak our language, they do not have money, they do not have culture. They are native peoples. How did they manage to get 13% of the national territory.” – Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015
“There is no indigenous territory where there aren’t minerals. Gold, tin and magnesium are in these lands, especially in the Amazon, the richest area in the world. I’m not getting into this nonsense of defending land for Indians.” – Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015
“I fought with Jarbas Passarinho [former minister of Justice] right here. I fought with him about the high treason he committed in demarcating the Yanomami reserve. Criminal.” – Interview with Marcelo Godoy, Estado de São Paulo, April 2, 2017
“Not a centimetre will be demarcated either as an indigenous reserve or as a Quilombola [territory for descendents of African slave communities].” – Hebrew Club, Rio de Janeiro April 3, 2017. (He later corrected himself, saying he meant millimetre)
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