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"You know in this moment some perpetrators of the attacks, but you do not know who imagined the attack, who is the leader of the attack who is the idea (sic) of the attack, who established and supported means for the attacks, who defined the logistics of the attacks, who established the strategies of the attack. Nothing...I think that one part of the perpetrators are Islamists, but I think that not only is an Islamist attack."
"Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover,I speak it intimately too."
"The record clearly shows that jihadists see the run-up to an election and the months just afterward as an opportune time to act. Everyone remembers the Bin Laden video that was released days before the 2004 presidential election and the Madrid train-station bombings that occurred 72 hours before Spain’s national elections in March of that year. When the conservative government of José María Aznar mistakenly attributed the attacks to Basque separatists, the public punished his party, which was felt to be pretending that its unpopular support for the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. The socialists, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had been trailing in the polls, but after the government’s blunder, they thumped the conservatives by a five-point margin. Those are only the best-known jihadist interventions. Alongside them should be added the first bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, a little more than a month after Bill Clinton took office, and the attack on the USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, three weeks before that year’s Bush-Gore matchup. Last year, radicals attempted multiple car bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland, three days after Gordon Brown’s June 27 installation as Britain’s prime minister. And let’s not forget the murder of Benazir Bhutto while she was campaigning in Pakistan or the September 2004 bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, which preceded the Australian elections by a month."
"I'm going to give you a peaceful Basque Country"
""The main priority of the Socialist Party is education"."
"With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality."
"I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat."
"Gender equality is more successful than armed force"
"If we live together, together we must decide."
"Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship"
"How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan"
"My grandfather asked in his will that whenever it became possible, his name should be cleared so that he would no longer be denounced as a 'traitor to patriotism'. My grandfather has had a great effect on me during my life."
"I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king."
"Less smoking and more reading."
"Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal."
"In my opinion, patriotism is liberty."
""Reachable goals are worth the struggle." (30th Nov., 2005)"
"The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it. It doesn't matter how many differences there may be, Habermas pointed out, everyone shares some principles. No culture tolerates the exploitation of human beings. No religion permits the murder of innocent people. No civilisation accepts violence or terror."
"We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world."
""The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age"."
"Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence."
"Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better."
"Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims."
"In the name of the Spanish government and on my own behalf, I want to express my profound sadness for these very serious terrorist attacks which have struck your country. "I also want to express the solidarity and affection of the Spanish people... Today's attacks against seven trains in Bombay recall the tragic scenes we lived out in Madrid on 11 March 2004."
""I would like to admit the clear error I made in front of all Spanish citizens"."
"The US doesn't understand South America.""
"Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated."
"To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile."
"During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain."
"There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing."
"The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012."
"Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.""
"You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect."
"In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people."
"Goodnight, and good luck."
"I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little."
"As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism."
"Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009."
"I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football."
"It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us."
"The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately."
"The earth belongs to nobody except the wind."
"We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years."
""We must have a distinct vision of what employment and unemployment are. A person who is training or educating themselves is working for their country. That is what we have discovered in this recession, that training, education and innovation are fundamental.", Oslo Forum, September 2010."
"The photo is the most important thing."
"From the Prestige come a few little glazes with the appearance of plasticine."
"I want to convey to the Spaniards a message of hope. ETA is a great nation; Spain, sorry, it's a great nation."
"Some aspects of the Spanish economy are going well, [...] but it is not because you govern [...] What has been your main virtue as a ruler? Not ruining the economy, and therefore I applaud. He could have razed everything he found, [...] but no, he had the right to leave the economy as it was before."
"Long live the wine!"
"Tomorrow I have to attend to that pain of the parade."
"You are going to raise VAT on this child who came here! The marshmallows! You are going to raise VAT on the marshmallows!"
"A truly remarkable thing has happened to me, that I have written it here and I do not understand my handwriting."
"The decisions are made in the moment they are made."
"I like Catalans. They do stuff."
"The measures we make harm people, but they are imperative."
"Everything that has been published is false, except something, which is what the media has published."
"Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which entails making a decision."
"A historical figure gives up leaving an unpayable debt."
"You can not be an absurd optimist, but you also can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality."
"It is the neighbor who chooses the mayor and it is the mayor who wants the neighbors to be the mayor."
"To me, being president of the country is awesome."
"I work a day 12 hours 40 minutes."
"Exporting is positive because you sell what you produce."
"The most important thing we can do for you is what you can do for yourselves."
"This is not like the water that falls from the sky, without knowing exactly why."
"And the European one?"
"A glass is a glass and a plate is a plate."
"It is one thing to be supportive, and another to ask for things in exchange of nothing."
"Spain is a great nation and Spaniards very Spanish and much Spanish."
"Spain is a great country which make things and have Spanish people."
"Neither Hitler nor Stalin have been named persona non grata in Pontevedra."
"We are feelings and have human beings."
"What we have done, which you did not do, is deceiving people."
"We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn."
"Roads must be used by cars and airplanes must fly in airports."
"Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?"
"As Galileo said, the movement always accelerates when it is going to stop."
"The worse the better for all and the worse for all the better, the better for me, in your political benefit."
"We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do."
"Nobody was up in arms when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began three years ago and [Russia] had to leave international competitions and could not take part, as we have just seen, in Eurovision. Therefore Israel shouldn't either, because what we cannot allow is double standards in culture."
"Protecting your country and your society is one thing, but bombing hospitals and killing innocent boys and girls with hunger is another thing entirely."
"Spain, as you know, doesn't have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers, or large oil reserves. We alone can't stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn't mean we will stop trying. Because there are causes worth fighting for, even if winning them is not solely in our hands."
"Spain never recognised the Maduro government because it broke the rules, because his election was illegitimate, and precisely for that reason it cannot recognise the legitimacy of a military action that is clearly illegal, that violates international law and whose sole objective seems to be none other than to change the government of another country to seize its natural resources."
"The question is not if we are on the side of the ayatollahs - nobody is. The question is whether we are in favour of peace and international legality."
"And it is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling that objective should use the fog of war to hide their failure while lining the pockets of a few – the same ones as always."