Former Finances Minister, Vítor Gaspar, announced, on the 3rd of October, 2012, alterations to public taxes. However, Gaspar believed these measures would be temporary.
On the 12th of August, 1963, two weeks after Security Council condemned the Portuguese colonial policy, Salazar talked to the Portuguese. On a speech broadcast through radio and television, the President of the Council said this controversial statement.
A match between Sporting and Porto was used by Eugénio Alves to deceive the censors. The journalist used the sentence, disguised as sports coverage, to convey a message of hope to the insurgent military forces.
As a COPCON and Revolution advisor, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was questioned about perturbations up north. His answer, that he considered distorted by History, caused uproar.
In 1978, President Ramalho Eanes fired Prime Minister, Mário Soares. When he left the office, Mário Soares expressed his happiness through an expression that made History.
Vítor Gaspar presents his interpretation, on the 14th of July, 2011, about the quote attributed to Passos Coelho. According to the Finances minister, the popular expression "colossal deviation" is due to the omission of the words used by the Prime Minister between "colossal" and "deviation".
