José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Quotes

During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain.

I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football.

I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little.

To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.

If we live together, together we must decide.

Source: Zapatero: "El Gobierno ha situado a España en la Champions League de las economías del mundo" Cadena SER.

The US doesn't understand South America."

"Reachable goals are worth the struggle." (30th Nov., 2005)

We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years.

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."

Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated.

Source: Zapatero evita respaldar a De la Vega y asume que habrá crisis de Gobierno

The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.

I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.

Source: El Mundo, Rodríguez Zapatero reprocha a Rajoy que no afronte el debate presupuestario como líder del PP (Spanish)