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 soc…

- Mariano Rajoy

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling thems…

- Mariano Rajoy

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

- Mariano Rajoy

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…

- Mariano Rajoy

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

- Mariano Rajoy

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

- Mariano Rajoy

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

- Mariano Rajoy

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

- Mariano Rajoy

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking w…

- Mariano Rajoy