Notable quotes from Brazil presidential election

Sun Oct 1, 2006 5:05 AM ET

(Reuters) - Here are some notable quotes from politicians, analysts and ordinary people regarding Brazil's general election on Sunday.

Incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party, or PT, is expected to beat his closest rival Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or

PSDB.

"There isn't one person, there isn't one political party that can solve all Brazil's problems on its own." -- Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Archbishop of Salvador.

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"They sip drinks on their yachts and say Lula is giving handouts to the poor. How easy it is for those stuffing their bellies to tell the (hungry) they can't eat." -- President Lula said of the Brazilian elite at a rally in Brasilia.

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"The time has come to say enough scandal, enough dirty money, enough lies," PSDB candidate Geraldo Alckmin.

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"Brazil is the country of rich banks and poor people." -- leftist presidential candidate Heloisa Helena.

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"He has disinherited the PT, treating it like a lover that you only meet with at night in special locations." -- Bolivar Lamounier of Augurium political consultancy, on Lula distancing himself from the Workers' Party.

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"If there is anything that society is feeling right now, it is repugnance with corruption, and fear of crime. Those two issues have to be high on the agenda of the next government." -- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazil's president from 1995 to 2002.

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"I'll vote for (Alckmin) but he doesn't stand a chance." -- Amauri Maia, a cattle rancher in the state of Minas Gerais.

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"We don't have any security, we are dying. We don't see the police here for weeks," Exuperio Antonio dos Santos, waiter in a Sao Paulo suburb.

Ah... the grass is greener on the other side: we still aim our criticism at Bush...