Mariano Rajoy Quotations

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

When certain crimes are committed in a country and it is possible to try them, it must be done in that country. That's the principle of territoriality,

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

When crimes are committed in one nation and it's possible to try those crimes there, that respects the principle of territoriality,

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

As far as I'm concerned, and I hope for the prime minister too, you can't pay a political price (for peace).

This is a pause. It is not a renunciation of criminal activity.

Thirty-five kilos of dynamite are enough to blow up a building with no problem whatsoever,

This is an attack against competition, against the interest of consumers.

It's the beginning of the end of the state Spaniards drew up in 1978.

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

The Civil Guard has frustrated ETA's intention of establishing a command cell in Barcelona, stopping a new campaign in Catalonia against people and possibly tourist interests,

The introduction of this legislation has been delayed for a few years. We are going to try to push this forward.