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

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.

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.

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

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

Fame is a Bleet, man.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.