Conservatives and liberals have made a big mess of managing Europe and the crisis. Every unemployed person knows it, every woman that has had her rights stripped away knows it and every youth whose future is in jeopardy knows it. Our job is to get the biggest turnout possible to make sure that finally, the conservatives know it too. With these ten key points to guide us and with Martin Schulz as our Common Candidate we will succeed.
(Sergei Stanishev, PES President, Rome Election Congress, 01 03 2014)
Do we feel the pain of a young man or a young woman who sends off 300 job applications and gets 300 No's? Do we feel the pain of a couple in their 50s who lose their jobs and lose their home because they can no longer pay their mortgages and are told that they are too old to find a new job? Do we feel the pain of parents who don't know where the next warm meal for their children will come from? Only if we are able to share this pain, are we able to regain trust […] and deserve to win elections.
(Martin Schulz, Candidate for Commission President, speech at the Rome Congress of the Party of European Socialists, 01 03 2014)
Austerity measures taken by right wing representatives and therefore impoverishment of people did not prove itself. We should save, but the main focus should be given to stimulating the economy and creating new jobs. Martin Schulz, European Socialdemocrats’ candidate for the European Commission President emotionally said: “For too long, we have been told, that the invisible hand regulates markets, that we cannot tame financial markets. But we can - and we must! The greedy ones benefited from weaker people and decent people were treated fools for too long too”.
(Justas Paleckis, MEP to the Žinių radio on the Rome Congress of the Party of European Socialists, 05 03 2014 )