Categoría: Discursos

  • Traspaso de la comandancia en jefe del Ejército

    Señoras y señores: Inicio estas palabras con la gratitud por vuestra presencia en esta ceremonia militar, la última con que culmina mi carrera de las armas, en la que he permanecido por 65 años, sirviéndola con gran cariño y amor porque a través de ella servía a mi Patria, único norte de mi diario vivir…

  • Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities

    Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and gentlemen,< It is a very special honour to receive today, from the hands of His Royal Highness, an award that enjoys so much esteem not only here in Spain, but also throughout the Latin American community as well as on the European continent. The list of past laureates…

  • Vision for Europe Award

    Dear Mr Prime Minister, Dear Mr Marquenie, Dear Mr Lussi, Ladies and Gentlemen, and above all, Dear Mr Israel, I am glad to be here again in this wonderful town in the heart of Europe. I am pleased by the warmth of your welcoming words. I would very much like to thank the Foundation, and…

  • On the Death of Princess Diana

    Since last Sunday’s dreadful news we have seen, throughout Britain and around the world, an overwhelming expression of sadness at Diana’s death. We have all been trying in our different ways to cope. It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other…

  • The Obituary to Diana Princess of Wales speech

    I stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning, before a world in shock. We are all united, not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana, but rather in our need to do so, because such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of…

  • General election victory speech

    I have just accepted Her Majesty the Queen’s kind offer to form a new administration and government for the country. John Major’s dignity and courage over the last few days and the manner of his leaving, is the mark of the man. I am pleased to pay tribute to him. As I stand here before…

  • Second Inaugural Address

    My fellow citizens: At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new millennium, but on…

  • Speech to Iraqis

    In the name of God, the most gracious, the Most Merciful; oh, great people; oh, honorable members of our armed forces; oh, sons of our glorious Arab nation; oh, honorable people of the world: Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most…

  • Democratic National Convention

    Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. Four years ago, four years ago, you gave me your nomination to be vice president. And tonight I want to say, from the bottom of my heart: Thank you for the opportunity to serve…

  • Premio Príncipe de Asturias

    Majestad, Alteza Real, Sr. Presidente de la Fundación, Sr. Presidente del Principado, Autoridades, Sra. Ministra, Señoras y Señores, Quiero que mis primeras palabras sean de gratitud a S.M. la Reina, que nos honra con Su presencia, a S.A.R. el Príncipe de Asturias -que nos preside-, a la Fundación, al Jurado que ha tenido a bien…