“The longer they put off admitting defeat and crticising themselves, the longer it will take for them to earn the confidence of their citizens.”
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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was a Spanish statesman, politician and chemist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2010 to 2011, and previously as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993, as Minister of the Presidency from 1993 to 1996, as Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2011 and as acting Minister of Defence between May and June 2008.
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politics · Spanish politician · chemist · politician · senior lecturer · university teacher · minister · also Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Rubalcaba
Born 28 July 1951 · Died 10 May 2019 · Q333638
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2026· 11 entries
“As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism.”
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“You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.”
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“During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain.”
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“Today, the grandeur of a country is measured by the extent to which it defends and extends its citizens' rights through its impulse towards total equality, by its capacity to create energy that contributes towards cultural, social and economic growth. That is how a country becomes strong, by making its citizens more powerful.”
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“If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak.”
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EL PAÍS: El Congreso acuerda dedicar una sala a Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba con el rechazo del PP
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El Periódico: El escritorio de prensa del Congreso llevará el nombre de Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
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Cadena SER: El Congreso dedicará una sala a Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
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Europa Press: El Congreso bautizará con el nombre de Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba la sala de prensa del palacio, con el rechazo del PP
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Infobae: El Congreso pondrá el nombre de Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba al escritorio de prensa del palacio, con el rechazo del PP
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2020· 2 entries
Awarded Spanish Order of the Police Merit (2020).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard (2020).
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2019· 3 entries
CNN Chile: Quién era Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, el político cuya muerte conmociona a España
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Yahoo Noticias en Español: Fallece Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, exvicepresidente y líder clave del PSOE
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Died 2019-05-10.
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2012· 2 entries
Career landmark: Secretary General of the PSOE (2012–2014).
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“I'm going to give you a peaceful Basque Country”
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2011–2014).
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2010· 2 entries
Career landmark: First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Spain (2010–2011).
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Career landmark: Spokesperson of the Government of Spain (2010–2011).
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2009· 6 entries
“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.”
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“I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football.”
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“It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us.”
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“The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately.”
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“The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.”
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“We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years.”
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2008· 4 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2008–2011).
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“The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.”
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“In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.”
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“I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little.”
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2007· 4 entries
“To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.”
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“There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.”
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“Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated.”
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“Ségolène represents personal energy, good spirits and optimism, the determination to preside, the vocation to get things done instead of talking about it; as we have done in Spain.”
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2006· 4 entries
Career landmark: Minister of the Interior of Spain (2006–2011).
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“Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.”
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“Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.”
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“Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better.”
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2005· 9 entries
“We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.”
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“For me, a republican is someone who defends public institutions and democratic values, someone who is a defender of public life, someone who repsects the principles of liberty, so in that sense we are very calm and at ease.”
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“I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king.”
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“My grandfather asked in his will that whenever it became possible, his name should be cleared so that he would no longer be denounced as a 'traitor to patriotism'. My grandfather has had a great effect on me during my life.”
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“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan”
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“Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship”
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“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”
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“The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it. It doesn't matter how many differences there may be, Habermas pointed out, everyone shares some principles. No culture tolerates the exploitation of human beings. No religion permits the murder of innocent people. No civilisation accepts violence or terror.”
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“Peace is not a natural state of man, as the great pacifist Gandhi told us. But man can create it. If we have broken down walls that seemed unbreakable, we will not passively agree that more profound differences should their place.”
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2004· 4 entries
“Gender equality is more successful than armed force”
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“I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.”
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2004–2008).
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“If we live together, together we must decide.”
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2003· 1 entry
“With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.”
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2000· 2 entries
Rubalcaba joined the party's federal committee, playing a key role in the party's road map back to government
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2000–2004).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Rubalcaba was appointed as a member of the PSOE executive, and his inclusion was seen as a sign of his role to play in the next era outside of government
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (1996).
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (1996–2000).
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1993· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister of the Presidency (1993–1996).
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Career landmark: Spokesperson of the Government of Spain (1993–1996).
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (1993–1996).
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1992· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Education and Science (1992–1993).
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1986· 1 entry
And in 1992 he was promoted to Minister of Education and Science by Prime Minister Felipe González
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1982· 1 entry
Rubalcaba took on various posts in the Education Ministry, including Director of the Technical Cabinet for the Secretary of State for Universities and Investigation
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1974· 1 entry
And, being a keen athlete at school, ran the 100 metres in 10
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-07-28.
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