Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetimewhen they can't take their richesto the

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.

No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.

One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.

There is no art without Eros.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.