Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
President of the Government of Spain.
"In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people."
"Goodnight, and good luck."
"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".
"During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain."
"As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism."
"The earth belongs to nobody except the wind."
"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."
"With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality."
"The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately."
"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."
The US doesn't understand South America."
"We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years."
"Reachable goals are worth the struggle." (30th Nov., 2005)
"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."
"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."
"Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better."