Mariano Rajoy Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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

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