Manuel Fraga Iribarne Quotes (12 quotes)

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“A great man" […] "and the greatest and most representative of the Spanish people of the 20th century" […] "one of the great leaders we have had in our history.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

The day Francisco Franco, the dictator, died. Frases que reflejan el recorrido de Manuel Fraga, 16th January 2012, Gara, 16th January 2012, castellà http://www.gara.net/azkenak/01/315809/es/Frases-que-reflejan-recorrido-Manuel-Fraga, Franco and Francoism

“The language is named Spanish, not Castillian! Spanish is the language of everybody. It has become the language of Spain already […] Catalonia was occupied by Felipe IV, by Felipe V (who defeated the Catalans), it was bombed by general Espartero, who was a revolutionary general, and we occupied it in 1939 and we are prepared to take the rifle again. Therefore, you shall guess what to expect. Here I have my rifle to use it again.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Mor Fraga, 16th January 2012, Crònica.cat, 15th January 2012 http://www.cronica.cat/noticia/Mor_Fraga, Language

“Legalising the Basque flag over my dead body.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Frases que reflejan el recorrido de Manuel Fraga, 16th January 2012, Gara, 16th January 2012, castellà http://www.gara.net/azkenak/01/315809/es/Frases-que-reflejan-recorrido-Manuel-Fraga, Periferical Nationalisms

“We will not seat at the same table with the comunists. I will never talk to them.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Reported in Hernández, María Jesús. El verbo de don Manuel http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/espana/manuel-fraga/perlas/02.html Elmundo.es. Transition to democracy

“I would not execute [by firing squad] certain people. They should be hooked off their balls.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Fraga's answer to "Are you as a professor against the death penalty?" Mor al llit, impunement, Manuel Fraga, icona del franquisme i responsable dels assassinats de Gasteiz, 16th January 2012, Setmanari La Directa, 16th January 2012, catalan http://www.setmanaridirecta.info/noticia/noticia-fraga, Franco and Francoism

“Those who have not learnt from Gasteiz will be responsible for their own acts. Those who want to fight, will be fought. With all of its consequences. Stop being fool.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Mor al llit, impunement, Manuel Fraga, icona del franquisme i responsable dels assassinats de Gasteiz, 16th January 2012, Setmanari La Directa, 16th January 2012, catalan http://www.setmanaridirecta.info/noticia/noticia-fraga, Gasteiz Facts

Manuel Fraga Iribarne Quotes

“Legalisation of the Communist Party is a real coup d'état.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

“My mother (from Iparralde) understood perfectly that she had to teach French, not Basque, which is a dead language.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

“The Franco Regime has set the basis for an ordered Spain. Actually, just compare today's Spain with the situation in the 30s.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

(December, 30, 2007), Manuel Fraga, Popular party MP: 'En Galicia no hay un gobierno, sino dos partidos que quieren pisar moqueta' http://www.farodevigo.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=3219_4_189413__Galicia-Manuel-Fraga-presidente-Xunta-senador-Galicia-gobierno-sino-partidos-quieren-pisar-moqueta Entrevista al Diari de Vigo.; Fraga: "El franquismo ha sentado las bases para una España con más orden" http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Fraga/franquismo/ha/sentado/bases/Espana/orden/elpepuesp/20071230elpepunac_8/Tes Diari El País (30 de desembre de 2007). Franco and Francoism

“It is obious that the glorious day of July, 18, 1936 [Franco's coup d'état] was one of the nicest political and social movements that the world remembers. Historians shall admit that the most and best part of the country was the one who raised against the governement, illegal and corrupt, who was preparing the darkest red revolution from the power.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

1949, reported in Hernández, María Jesús. El verbo de don Manuel http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/espana/manuel-fraga/perlas/02.html Elmundo.es. Franco and Francoism

“The best terrorist, the dead one.”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

“Streets are mine!”

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Interior Ministry during social problems in Gasteiz Fets de Vitòria de 1976. Frases que reflejan el recorrido de Manuel Fraga, 16th January 2012, Gara, 16th January 2012, castellà http://www.gara.net/azkenak/01/315809/es/Frases-que-reflejan-recorrido-Manuel-Fraga, Gasteiz Facts