Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

Europe is and will be a Union of States.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

I'm not likely to forget someone slapping my butt with a big piece of wood.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.