No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.

How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.

I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.