Top 15 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Quotes

The photo is the most important thing.

"We must have a distinct vision of what employment and unemployment are. A person who is training or educating themselves is working for their country. That is what we have discovered in this recession, that training, education and innovation are fundamental.", Oslo Forum, September 2010.

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

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

The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.

The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately.

It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us.

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.

Source: Diciembre 2008. Prensa

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.

Source: 20 Minutos: El lapsus de Zapatero: "Un acuerdo para estimular, para favorecer, 'para follar'..."

As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism.

Source: "A partir de este fin de semana, voy a dramatizar un poco"

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.

Goodnight, and good luck.