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Gianfranco Rotondi
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“They decimated the Christian Democrats and the Italian Socialist Party, and then the 'red robes' tried their luck with Berlusconi but failed.”
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“Tomorrow, I won't be going to the Council of Ministers; for me, a long holiday is beginning. I am disappointed, but I will remain silent so as not to disrupt the election campaign of the party, which I helped found and in which I was not allowed to nominate a single candidate. Of course, I will support the PdL and give my preference to Silvio Berlusconi, but only as my best man.”
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“The Lega Nord wants to go to the polls, but if it cares about federalism , it should be prepared for the legislative term to end. Revolutionaries need to be patient and also a bit Dorothean.”
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“Even if the government were to end tomorrow, I would still consider it a great honour to have worked with an honest, upright man with deep moral values: Silvio Berlusconi.”
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“I am offended by the criticisms made by Caparezza in his latest single [Goodbye Malinconia]; they are criticisms that Italy and Milan do not deserve. [...] It saddens me that an Italian would get involved in an operation against his own country. To attack Milan as a symbol of a degraded Italy is to denigrate one of the symbols of a country that is working hard despite the difficult times it is going through.”
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“(About Caparezza) Interviewer: Is it acceptable to smear your own country to sell records? Rotondi: In a normal country, he wouldn't sell any records.”
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“Do you think MPs are swimming in money? I know colleagues who are considering whether they can stay in Rome for one more day. They're forced to count every penny. €8,000 in allowance plus €4,000 for a bag carrier.”
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“Let's keep those thousand MPs on our side. We can't give them a pay rise (and here, you can almost hear the minister's voice quiver with regret), but at least let's keep them happy, reassure them, and not p*ss them off if we want to make it to the end of the parliamentary term. And in the meantime, let's try to make people forget about us.”
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“[Silvio] Berlusconi, a womanising saint, but he will go down in history as a statesman.”
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“As Italian men, we all think we're the best entrepreneurs, the best team leaders, the best politicians, and also great lovers. Well, Berlusconi did all those things well. Berlusconi's achievements may be debatable, but when it comes to the bedroom, there's no doubt about it. As Cossiga put it: 'The only successes or failures that cannot be hidden are those in the bedroom.'”
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“I confirmed my candidacy for prime minister in the next general election to Klauscondicio. I'm ready to challenge Renzi, and I've already let Berlusconi know.”
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“I certainly count as one of the poor, because even though the Corriere della Sera describes us as a caste, we MPs are among the least well-off Italians. I'm definitely not a wealthy person; we MPs are middle-class. 7”
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“Silvio [Berlusconi] is like Christ: he too was the victim of a verdict.”
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“Don Sturzo, quoted by Matteo Salvini, is like the Pope receiving Rocco Siffredi...”
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“I am convinced that judges need to be given more resources and more money, including higher salaries, if that helps speed up trials. [...] I'll tell you about something that happened to me when I was having dinner with some friends in Florence. At a nearby table, there was a small group: they were judges. A successful candidate from a competitive exam arrived, and his colleagues welcomed him with applause. A beautiful colleague in her forties stood up and said to him, 'Always remember the lesson of our teacher, who told us: one day, the left will sell its soul, and on that day, we judges will be the only opposition left.' I intervened with a rather rude response, which led to a minor verbal altercation that I ended in true Christian Democrat style by paying for everyone's dinner.”
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