Top 25 Quotes by Jose Maria Aznar

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

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.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

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

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

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

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

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.

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.