Spanish Politician Quotes

Francisco Franco
Hadrian
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José María Aznar
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Dolores Ibarruri

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco
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
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
In a poetic sweep we will raise this fervent devotion to Spain; we will make sacrifices, we will renounce the easy life and we will triumph, triumph that—you know this well—we shall not obtain in the upcoming elections. In these elections vote the lesser evil. But your Spain will not be born out of them, nor does our frame for action reside there.

José Antonio Primo de Rivera
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
The Franco Regime has set the basis for an ordered Spain. Actually, just compare today's Spain with the situation in the 30s.

Manuel Fraga Iribarne
Manuel Fraga Iribarne
Little soul, wandering, gentle guest and companion of the body, into what places will you now go, pale, stiff, and naked, no longer sporting as you did!

Hadrian
Hadrian
When governments are austere, societies are prosperous.

Esperanza Aguirre
Esperanza Aguirre
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Often attributed to Emiliano Zapata

Dolores Ibarruri
Dolores Ibarruri
The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.

You know in this moment some perpetrators of the attacks, but you do not know who imagined the attack, who is the leader of the attack who is the idea (sic) of the attack, who established and supported means for the attacks, who defined the logistics of the attacks, who established the strategies of the attack. Nothing... I think that one part of the perpetrators are Islamists, but I think that not only is an Islamist attack.

José María Aznar
José María Aznar