I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?

you're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure

Dreams fuel human beings imaginative response to existence.

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

Truth is "the prize of life is death".

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.