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.

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.

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.

Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.

Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.