Words matter. These are the best Jose Maria Aznar Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
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.
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
I’m not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.
I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I’m not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.
We in the West should stand by our core principles.
Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
Speak less but act more.
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.
The alliance should agree… to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.
My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
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.
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.
It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.
The only message that terrorists need to get is that they’re going to be beaten.
