Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Quotes

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• Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Years, Needs, Violence

  Presidential press release after ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration, September 2006.

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• 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.

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  Distance, War, Commitment

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• 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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  Diversity, Spain, Citizenship

  Speech in the French National Assembly, March 2005.

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• 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.

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  Military, Terrorism, Civilized

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

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Socialist Government, Inequality, Surplus

  "Rodríguez Zapatero reprocha a Rajoy que no afronte el debate presupuestario como líder del PP". Newspaper article, www.elmundo.es. October 29, 2003.

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• Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

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  Voice, Citizens, Democratic

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• The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

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  Rights, Progress, Citizens

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• Less smoking and more reading.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Reading, Smoking

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• No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Government, Given, Terror

  "Zapatero: Spanish 'not cowards'", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Europe is and will be a Union of States.

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  Country, Europe, Unions

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech to Spanish Cortes, June 15, 2004.

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• Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Successful, Gender Equality, Force

  Time Magazine Interview, September 22, 2004.

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• The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Fighting, Essence, Risk

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• You can't bomb a people just in case.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  People, Bombs, Cases

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• The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".

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  Party, Socialist Party, Priorities

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• Were 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.

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  Peace, War, Government

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• I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

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  Research And Development, Community, Want

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

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  Office, Leader, Want

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

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  Peace, Years, Long

  "Basque separatists call 'permanent' cease-fire" by Tracy Wilkinson, www.sfgate.com. March 23, 2006.

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

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  Government, Important, Citizens

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

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  Media, Needs, Corporations

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• 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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  Wall, Bars, Pits

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech as the guest of honour at the dinner hosted by Felipe Calderon at the National Palace in Mexico City, July 16, 2007.

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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.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Meeting in Jerez, August 14, 2007.

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• 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.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Football, Champions League, Drawing

  Speech in the Congress of Deputies, September 11, 2007.

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• 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.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Ideas, People, Demand

  "El Rey se enfrenta a gritos con Chávez en defensa de Aznar: '¿Por qué no te callas?'" by Marisa Cruz, www.elmundo.es. November 10, 2007.

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

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  People, Democracy

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