Words matter. These are the best Carles Puigdemont Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain’s central government.
Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we’ve acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
If you’re hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don’t know what’s on the menu – perhaps it’s not your favorite dish – but you will eat.
Whoever doesn’t want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.
To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia’s future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
Spain’s parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.
The British people have the right to decide – have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn’t interfere in this.
I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me – I’m a European citizen.
No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain – if that’s what the Catalan people choose – would be accomplished.
There’s a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it’s not just us who are realising that.
If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?
There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It’s an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state… Not just in exceptional moments.
We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It’s the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
The independence project in Catalonia is… a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
Spain’s constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco’s dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.
To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
I express Catalonia’s wish of being in the E.U. We’ll see what happens.
I don’t want to go to prison… but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren’t those one imagined.
It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
There’s no alternative to Catalan independence.
