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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
42 quotes
“I'm going to give you a peaceful Basque Country”
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“The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".”
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Recorded in: Note: January, 13th 2003
“With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.”
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Recorded in: Note: Oct. 2003, when Cristóbal Montoro, then Home Affairs Minister, announced that there was a surplus in the public purse.
“I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.”
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Recorded in: Note: Interview with "Time" Magazine, September 19th, 2004
“Gender equality is more successful than armed force”
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Recorded in: Interview with "Time" Magazine, September 22th, 2004
“If we live together, together we must decide.”
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 1960) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Note: Start of an speech in the Congress of Deputies against Ibarretxe's plan. February 1st, 2005
“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”
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Recorded in: Note: Speech in the French National Assembly. March, 2005
“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”
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Recorded in: Note: April 2005, regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country.
“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.”
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“I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king.”
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Recorded in: Note: 14th April 2005, during a commemoration to the Second Republic.
“Less smoking and more reading.”
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Recorded in: Note: 23rd April 2005.
“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”
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Recorded in: 3rd September 2005, in a meeting of the PSOE federal committee whilst tabling a motion to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes to finance health spending.
“In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.”
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Recorded in: Note: 6th October 2005, during a discussion on Catalan and Spanish nationalism and the inclusion of the term nation-state in the Statute of Catalonia.
“Reachable goals are worth the struggle." (30th Nov., 2005)”
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“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 civilisation accepts violence or terror.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Nota: 19th Dec. 2005
“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".”
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Recorded in: Congress of Deputies, 1st May 2006
“Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.”
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Recorded in: Note: Presidential press release after ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration, September 2006.
“Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better.”
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Recorded in: Note: Presidential press release on 29th December 2006, one day before an ETA bomb attack at Madrid airport, resulting in 2 deaths.
“Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.”
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Recorded in: Note: In reference to the ETA bombing at Madrid airport, El Confidencial (Spanish). That same day, Zapatero said that calling the attack an 'accident' had been a slip of the tongue, but it was seized by the press and pr…
“In the name of the Spanish government and on my own behalf, I want to express my profound sadness for these very serious terrorist attacks which have struck your country. "I also want to express the solidarity and affection of the Spanish people... Today's attacks against seven trains in Bombay recall the tragic scenes we lived out in Madrid on 11 March 2004.”
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“I would like to admit the clear error I made in front of all Spanish citizens".”
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Recorded in: Note: January 2007, apologising for his announcement on 29th December 2006, "in a year things will be even better"/
“The US doesn't understand South America.”
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“Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated.”
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“To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.”
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Recorded in: Note: Meeting in the Vistalegre Palace, Madrid, 23rd April 2007.
“During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain.”
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Recorded in: Debate on the State of the Nation, 3rd July 2007
“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.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Meeting on the 14th August 2007 in Jerez, predicting another PSOE victory in the 2008 elections.
“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.”
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Recorded in: 11th Sept. 2007, during a speech by the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.
“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.”
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“In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.”
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Recorded in: 24th Feb. 2008
“Goodnight, and good luck.”
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Recorded in: Closing remark to the Presidential debate with Mariano Rajoy in the 2008 election campaign.
“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.”
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Recorded in: Said to the presenter of 'Cuatro', Iñaki Gabilondo, at the end of an interview, and referring to the 2008 general election. His words were captured by microphones when Zapatero presumed that he was no longer on air.
“As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Source: Diciembre 2008. Prensa
“I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football.”
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“It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us.”
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Recorded in: 29th April 2009
“The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately.”
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“The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.”
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Recorded in: At the 15th Climate Change Summit, Copenhagen, 17th December 2009.
“We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years.”
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“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.”
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“The photo is the most important thing.”
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Recorded in: Interview with Mohamed VI in the headquarters of the UN, September 2010.