Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.