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

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.

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.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.