Pedro Rebelo de Sousa - the regime's lawyer

"His path, like that of his brothers, only lends prestige to the profession. And there is something characteristic about him: since childhood, he has always been a professional scholar" - Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins

"He is genuinely conservative and too much to the right, to the point of looking at his brothers as being too far to the left" - Eduardo Barroso