Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Quotes

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

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

Less smoking and more reading.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

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.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Europe is and will be a Union of States.

My commitment is my commitment.

The main priority of the Socialist Party is education.

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.

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

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.

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

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

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

I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]

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.

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.