01/07/2011
José María Aznar: “The task of the centre-right will be to guarantee a welfare society through reforms that secure a pillar of cohesion and solidarity also for the future generations"
“I honestly believe that the Spanish people are aware of the problems we are suffering, and that they are prepared to support the solutions. In other words, they are prepared to support reforms that are understandable, coherent, serious and reliable. It is not true that they do not like politics or politicians, what they want are good politicians and good policies, and they are prepared to do efforts that are useful”
“A better future where we are able, all together, to overcome these eight years of Socialist regression. Because for Spain, these have been eight years of economic, political, social, and institutional regression. The Socialist bubble can no longer hide the regression caused by them, because it has burst”
“And the true bubble that has encumbered our country over the last eight years is that Socialist bubble. A bubble filled with demagogy, populism, so-called rights which are not so, false pacifism, much sectarism and an infinite will to exclude the opponent. That is the bubble that has burst and has left us with 5 million unemployed, with a confidence crisis that we have to overcome, and with Spain on a decreasing and displaced international position”
“The adventurers’ farewell, at the end of the escapade, is good news. The change has started where it should start in any democracy: at the polls. It has started because the Spanish people will not resign themselves and know that there is an alternative with good news and good policies. And the good news is that we can, all together, start the recovery of Spain after this shameful break which has resulted, as its worst consequence, in the return of the accomplices of terrorism to institutions”
“Let us make no mistake about this. Terror will not end by giving in to its blackmail, only its appearance changes. From being a terror that is practised it becomes a terror that threatens. Violence is rationalised, it can have a high or low intensity. And it can only adopt the shape of threatening”
“Rectifying by those who have to do so is urgent. Accepting ETA’s totalitarian project as something necessary and desirable so that ETA stops killing just cannot be assumed. That is what terrorism has always wanted”
“Once more, Mariano Rajoy, president of the Partido Popular, will close the Campus. Many important things for Spain are soon going to be under his command and in his hand. This Foundation works to contribute to his success. We are convinced that it will mean Spain’s success also. A broad victory of the Partido Popular that gathers the confidence of the majority of Spaniards is a necessary condition for the recovery of our nation. And our will, our vocation and our history is to serve Spain and the Spanish people”