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"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."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.