"tener razón" in English

In a democracy, the majority decides, but the minority may be in the right.

What is even worse is to be wrong and to see ever more clearly how wrong you were.

There is no reason why, in this day and age, Europe should have 25 national energy policies.

If we turn people away we must have a good reason for doing so.

In this respect, there is no point in having a double deadline.

But it is not enough to be right; you have to know how to be right and the Commission does not know.

I suggest it is a step too far and one that nation states should rightly resist.

I do not want, myself, to be forced reluctantly to prove them right.

Mrs Schmidbauer, my colleague Mr Ferber was absolutely right.

Therefore the objections about over-pricing the European patent would not apply.

I am sure that in the strict technical detail of the Rule he cited he may be correct.

It is for that reason that we want to have parliamentary control.

I believe that what you have presented here is an approach that brings genuine reason for hope.

There really is a link and I should like to draw your attention to it. I only wish there were not.

It is also full of examples of so-called minority opinions ultimately proving to be correct.

It is not a question of being right but of being put in the right.

Mr President, there is nothing more unpleasant for a politician than to be right but not to win the argument.

If one considers the struggles one faces in the course of the budgetary procedure, he appears to be right.

But Mr Duisenberg, of course, need not always be right.

What we have to do is reach agreement.