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Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936 in Milan) is the previous Prime Minister of Italy and media mogul.
Sourced I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man ever became Prime Minister in Italy. (ASCA, January 25, 2002) - I always win, I'm cursed to win. (ANSA, May 24, 2003)
- I know in Italy there is a producer, producing a film on Nazi concentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo. You would be perfect for that role. (said to German MEP Martin Schulz, European Parliament, July 2, 2003)
- I'm a gentleman, a truthful person, a sir of absolute morality. (From "La Repubblica", July 13, 2003)
- About magistrates he said: "To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed. If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings" (ANSA, September 5, 2003)
- Mussolini never killed anybody, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. (From La voce di Rimini, September 11, 2003)
- Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are. (Speech to the association Azzurri nel mondo, Lugano, October 24, 2004)
- Speaking in front of the commander of the special italian police corp, Guardia di Finanza, whose job is to fight financial frauds and tax evasion , he said "There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty". (November 11, 2004)
- If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules. (from Corriere della Sera, January 17, 2005)
- The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin. (newspaper La Repubblica, February 3, 2005)
- Asked to explain how Italy managed to get the support of its biggest competitor over the EU Food Authority dispute, he said "I used all my playboy skills and courted the Finnish President". (at the opening of the European Food Authority in Parma, June 21, 2005)
- By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar. (Italian Radio National Broadcast, January 18 2006)
- Speaking at his party's convention in Sardinia on January 28, 2006, "Thank you dear Father Massimiliano, I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 [election]". (Daily Il Giornale, January 29, 2006)
- only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller. (Reuters, February 9, 2006)
- Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists. (Speech in Ancona, February 11, 2006)
- I'm the Jesus Christ of politics, I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone. (Reuters, February 12, 2006)
Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". (an interview with Italian Telelombardia, March 6, 2006) - Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields. (Naples Rally, March 28, 2006)
- I have Italian citizens in too good consideration to think that there are so many voting assholes around which could vote against their own interests. I apologize for the rude but effective language.
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- The April 9th/10th vote is like that one of 1948, when democratic forces rejected the communist offensive and firmly moved the Country to the West, towards democracy and its values. ("Affari Italiani" magazine, April 7, 2006).
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