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

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.

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.

I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.