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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years."

"The photo is the most important thing."

"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."

""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."

"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."