Conservative Quote by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.

— Carles Puigdemont

Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is…

— Anne Applebaum

I am attracted by the idea of standing for a new, open party that believes Catalonia needs its own state.

— Joan Laporta

“During the first part of the 1930s, Spain saw the fall of its monarchy, its first democracy, a major revolutionary insurrection, an attempted military…

— Geoffrey Jensen

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for…

— Viktor Orban

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

— Noam Chomsky

The only problem is that there are a lot of people here in Catalonia who want to separate from Spain and a lot of…

— Gerard Pique

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

— George Osborne

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've…

— Ed Miliband

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has…

— Francisco Franco

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the…

— George Orwell

Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.

— King Felipe VI