Jose Maria Aznar Quotes

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Speak less but act more.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.