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.

I don’t think this debate is negative, it is enriching.

You can’t bomb a people just in case.

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

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

I said when I came into office that I don’t want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

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.

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.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

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.