“You can not be an absurd optimist, but you can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality.”

—  Mariano Rajoy

6 May, 2014
As President, 2014
Source: El Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2014/05/06/53688afde2704e95318b4570.html

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