José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Quotes

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"The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
"The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age".

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
"I would like to admit the clear error I made in front of all Spanish citizens".

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Gender equality is more successful than armed force

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
"Reachable goals are worth the struggle." (30th Nov., 2005)

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck... to help this type of tourism.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king.

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

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it. It doesn't matter how many differences there may be, Habermas pointed out, everyone shares some principles. No culture tolerates the exploitation of human beings. No religion permits the murder of innocent people. No civilization accepts violence or terror.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
"We must have a distinct vision of what employment and unemployment are. A person who is training or educating themselves is working for their country. That is what we have discovered in this recession, that training, education and innovation are fundamental.", Oslo Forum, September 2010.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
My grandfather asked in his will that whenever it became possible, his name should be cleared so that he would no longer be denounced as a 'traitor to patriotism'. My grandfather has had a great effect on me during my life.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero