People From Galicia

"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."

"We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do."

"It is obious that the glorious day of July, 18, 1936 [Franco's coup d'état] was one of the nicest political and social movements that the world remembers. Historians shall admit that the most and best part of the country was the one who raised against the government, illegal and corrupt, who was preparing the darkest red revolution from the power."

"Legalising the Basque flag over my dead body."

"Those who have not learnt from Gasteiz will be responsible for their own acts. Those who want to fight, will be fought. With all of its consequences. Stop being fool."

"Streets are mine!"

"The best terrorist, the dead one."

"Legalisation of the Communist Party is a real coup d'état."

"We will not seat at the same table with the communists. I will never talk to them."

"The language is named Spanish, not Castillian! Spanish is the language of everybody. It has become the language of Spain already [...] Catalonia was occupied by Felipe IV, by Felipe V (who defeated the Catalans), it was bombed by general Espartero, who was a revolutionary general, and we occupied it in 1939 and we are prepared to take the rifle again. Therefore, you shall guess what to expect. Here I have my rifle to use it again."

"My mother (from ) understood perfectly that she had to teach French, not Basque, which is a dead language."

"I would not execute [by firing squad] certain people. They should be hooked off their balls."

"The Franco Regime has set the basis for an ordered Spain. Actually, just compare today's Spain with the situation in the 30s."

"A great man" [...] "and the greatest and most representative of the Spanish people of the 20th century" [...] "one of the great leaders we have had in our history."