Jose Luis Quotes & Sayings

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Gender equality is more successful than armed force — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The photo is the most important thing. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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] — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

hemophilia, hemofilia — Jose Luis Leyva

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

It's Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It's Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history - and then seven days later clinching the World Series. It's Pedro Martinez and his six hitless innings of postseason relief against the Indians. Yes, it is also Cy Young and Roger Clemens, and the 192 wins in a Red Sox uniform that they share - the perfect game for Young, the 20 strikeout games for Clemens - but it is also Bill Dinneen clinching the 1903 World Series with a busted, bloody hand, and Jose Santiago shutting down Minnesota with two games left in the season to keep the 1967 Impossible Dream alive, and Jim Lonborg clinching the Impossible Dream the very next day, and Jim Lonborg again, tossing a one-hitter and a three-hitter in the 1967 World Series, and Luis Tiant in the 1975 postseason, shutting out Oakland and Cincinnati in back-to-back starts. They are all winners. — Tucker Elliot

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

One particular aspect of the civic republican tradition that obviously caught Mr. Zapatero's attention was the eyeball test to which Pettit had drawn attention in his book (1997, 166; see also chapter 2 in this volume). According to this test you enjoy freedom in relation to others - to a particular other or to others as represented in a group or in a government - only insofar as you can look them in the eye, without fear or deference, with a shared consciousness of this equal status. — Jose Luis Marti

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Europe is and will be a Union of States. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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

My commitment is my commitment. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky. — Jose Luis Peixoto

The deep self has been referred to by many names over the ages. You may know it as Essence, Spirit, Soul, Source...or, perhaps by no name at all. I prefer to call it The Inner Shaman...The Inner Shaman simply waits for your sanity, that glimmer of light or recognition on your part. In short, it is waiting for your readiness to be aware of it. — Jose Luis Stevens

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

We can only think in a language that we master. — Jose Luis Ruiz

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Less smoking and more reading. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to. — Jose Luis Peixoto

One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love. — Jose Luis Peixoto

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 — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

It is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others. — Jose Luis Peixoto

We speak the truth because we live in truth. — Jose Luis Ruiz

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves. — Jose Luis Ruiz

Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn. — Jon Stewart

What propels things into being is intention, attention, and strong emotion. If we are not careful, we can manifest things we are afraid of, because the Spirit World reads resistance the same way it reads desire. According to shamanic wisdom, what you resist is what you become. — Jose Luis Stevens

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The poem doesn't have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn't have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written with letters, it's written/ with grains of sand and kisses, petals and moments, shouts and/ uncertainties. — Jose Luis Peixoto

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

The main priority of the Socialist Party is education. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Our attention is in the moment; we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past. — Jose Luis Ruiz

You can't bomb a people just in case. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM. — Lesley Manville

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you. — Jose Luis Ruiz

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. — Jose Luis Borges

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 — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero