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Massimo D'Alema
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“(About the passages about the Rotkopf company's planes) As for the flights, it is absurd to say that I could have paid for a scheduled flight. As a member of parliament, I do not pay for scheduled flights. If I took a ride to attend three rallies instead of one, the savings were for the taxpayers, not me. We used these flights for work reasons because one of our colleagues told us that this option was available. If I had known what had come to light, I would certainly have gone on foot.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fron an interview of Repubblica TV. As quoted in D'Alema sui passaggi aerei e lo scandalo Enac, ilpost.it (July 12, 2011)
“I am in favor of bipolarism; I consider it a value. Despite all its limitations, it has brought about a change in the ruling class, which remains the most significant achievement of the Second Republic. But it has been a crude form of bipolarism, marked by the figure of Berlusconi, and today it needs to be rebuilt on European foundations.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in D'Alema: puntare al 60% con un nuovo centrosinistra, corriere.it (October 16, 2011)
“There is no right-wing liberal movement in Italy. It has always been corporatist and statist, and Berlusconism was no exception.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in D'Alema: puntare al 60% con un nuovo centrosinistra, corriere.it (October 16, 2011)
“Banks do not stand for election, and if they did, they would not have enough votes to govern these days.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in D'Alema: puntare al 60% con un nuovo centrosinistra, corriere.it (October 16, 2011)
“I am a supporter of Zeman. He is a divisive figure with a strong personality, someone who loves beautiful football.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview of Chiara Gamberale (July 4, 2012). As quoted in Marco Sarti, «La sinistra è Zeman, gioca bene ma prende tanti gol», Linkiesta.it (July 5, 2012)
“We must bring politics back to Europe. [...] This separation between democratic politics and decision-making is the tragedy of Europe. [...] Grand narratives also need to become decisions. If, on the other hand, real power is entrusted to technocracies and politics becomes an empty exercise, I believe that democracy is at risk. [...] The real problem is this: it is not about getting rid of politics, but about politics reclaiming its function, which is to guide social processes and change people's lives.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From interview to Umberto De Giovannangeli, alla exhibition about Berlinguer, Matera (October 8, 2012)
“(About the Italian resistance movement) This party is legitimate because it has roots in national history. [...] We are the heirs of that something that united the country's different democratic traditions .”
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Recorded in: From interview to Umberto De Giovannangeli, alla exhibition about Berlinguer, Matera (October 8, 2012)
“(Concernong the 2012 Democratic Party primary elections) If you follow Matteo Renzi's path, you are headed for political disaster. (November 8, 2012)”
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Recorded in: As quoted in 'Sul carro di Matteo Renzi c'è posto per tutti. Ma ecco cosa dicevano di lui i nuovi renziani, Repubblica.it (July 17, 2014); and also as quoted in Primarie Pd, polemica sui fondi Renzi attacca: chi paga sm…
“Letta is just a transitional leader for a temporary government with a specific agenda. He will not be useful a second time around. For the future, I imagine Gianni Cuperlo as secretary of the party and Matteo Renzi at Palazzo Chigi.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in in Le previsioni di D'Alema: «Letta? Non ha futuro. Con Matteo Renzi vinciamo», Corriere.it (August 23, 2013)
“I don't think that Renzi's media success corresponds to extraordinary wealth and novelty of content. (October 29, 2013)”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Sul carro di Matteo Renzi c'è posto per tutti. Ma ecco cosa dicevano di lui i nuovi renziani, Repubblica.it (july 17, 2014)
“Ultimately, what made Fidel Castro hugely popular in Latin America was the fact that he had the courage to do what almost all Latin Americans would like to do but don't have the courage to do: challenge the United States of America. [...] And that made him a star. Then he took advantage of it.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the speech at Incontri con l'America latina, Rome (July 9, 2015) (at 51:50)
“In this changing world, Europe should be the bearer of a new Atlantic vision. [...] But today, traditional Atlantic policy has become weak: it can become strong again if it becomes a policy for the “whole” Atlantic, and not just the North Atlantic. Because a policy for the whole Atlantic includes Latin America and Africa. This would represent a major opening on the part of Europe towards continents that are emerging as new possible protagonists. We must counterbalance the Asian century and the risk that the epicenter of global growth will shift to the Pacific [...]”
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Recorded in: From the speech at Incontri con l'America latina, Rome (July 9, 2015) (at 51:50)
“Stiglitz writes clearly [...] inequality is a political choice [...] the growth of inequality is destroying the foundations of democracy. [...] Either politics, force, [...] is capable of undermining these enormous privileges, or these riches will take over politics, because they condition it.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From intervento su Quel che resta di Marx, Rome (May 10, 2016).
“It's easy to beat up poor, desperate people. Finding the money to do what they promised is difficult, and they are unable to do so. The government has taken out its frustration on the easy target: the weak.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a round table at Reggio Calabria (September 6, 2018)
“I do not participate in the criminalization of the M5S, partly because the neo-fascist drift of the Lega is undoubtedly more worrying.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in D'Alema: "Preoccupa la deriva neofascista della Lega", Repubblica.it (January 21, 2018)
“Bersani is an authoritative leader, determined to build a party and a leadership team, after it was thought for too long that it was enough to demolish what was there to build something new.”
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“[...] Of course, he hasn't read Mao Tse-tung. Mao often used the example of the chopsticks that the Chinese use to eat: one moves to pick up the food, but the other remains still. The same applies to politics. Tactics, propaganda, and initiatives can change, but strategy cannot; it cannot change every week.”
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“That generation [of 1968] had an extraordinary, formative experience. Political generations are not only marked by the passing of time, which is ultimately a trivial fact. They are marked by events that characterize their formation. I would say that the great political generation before us was that of the Resistance [...] It is no coincidence that it remained in power for so many years, because it had lived through this extraordinary historical experience.”
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Recorded in: Quella generazione [del 1968] ha vissuto un'esperienza straordinaria, formativa. Le generazioni politiche non sono soltanto scandite dal trascorrere del tempo, che in fondo è un fatto banale. Sono segnate da eventi che …
“Erdogan is bombing our values, not just the Kurds. [...] The authority of the great democracies and the Western world is at stake. And unfortunately, we cannot count on the Americans, who are in the hands of a leadership whose credibility is now close to zero. This increases the responsibility of Europeans.”
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“1921 is celebrated as the birth of the Italian Communist Party, but in reality it was a defeat, a split in the workers' movement, just as fascism was rising.”
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Recorded in: Il 1921 è celebrato come l'evento della nascita del Pci ma in realtà risulta una sconfitta, una frattura del movimento operaio, proprio quando stava sorgendo il fascismo.
“Biondani Paolo, Gerevini Mario e Malagutti Vittorio, Capitalismo di rapina, Chiarelettere, Milano, 2007. ISBN 9788861900233”
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“We have a democratic form of leadership: leaders can change. Meanwhile, the Italian right wing has been under Berlusconi's imperishable command for sixteen years. However, I would like to point out that this is their anomaly, not ours. Because Berlusconi, who lost the elections twice, in 1996 and 2006, nevertheless remained at the head of the right wing, something that does not happen in any democratic country. And why has Berlusconi, despite losing two elections, remained at the head of the right for almost twenty years? Because he is its 'owner', not its leader. And so this is a completely different concept. Now, if you think that the center-left should also have an owner, you are mistaken. We are a free association.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Noi abbiamo una forma democratica della leadership: i leader possono cambiare. Mentre la destra italiana da sedici anni è sotto il comando imperituro di Berlusconi. Però vorrei fare osservare che è la loro l'anomalia, n…
“Scalfaro represented one of the most significant experiences of the generation that won democracy against fascism and rebuilt the country, making Italy a modern nation respected throughout the world [...]. I had the opportunity to work with him at various times during my political and institutional career. I remember him as an uncompromising defender of the role and prerogatives of Parliament, as an uncompromising defender of legality and of an ethical vision of political commitment. I remember him as Head of State, a scrupulous and authoritative interpreter of his role as guardian of the Constitution.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Napolitano: "Scalfaro, coerenza e integrità" Il Papa: "Statista cattolico per il bene comune", repubblica.it (January 29, 2012)
“(In 2021, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party) I was secretary of the Italian Communist Youth, and I was sent by our party secretary, Enrico Berlinguer, to China at the end of 1978. I remember that we were staying at the Beijing Hotel, which was perhaps the largest building in Beijing at the time. I remember the morning rustle of thousands and thousands of bicycles passing through Tiananmen Square, with the occasional car passing by. In a very short period of time, [China] has made an extraordinary leap towards modernity and progress, which will certainly remain the great historical achievement of the Communist Party. I believe that the most important thing China has managed to do is to lift at least 800 million people out of poverty: this is an extraordinary achievement. No country in the history of humanity has ever managed to achieve such an immense transformation in people's lives, in the sense that today China is a country where the scourge of poverty and hunger has been defeated or reduced to a totally marginal phenomenon; and this is an extraordinary historical achievement. Of course, [...] I also appreciate what has happened in recent years, because there has been a significant commitment to changing the Chinese model of development, especially in the sense of a development that is more compatible with the environment, more respectful of the environment, and more attentive to domestic consumption.”
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Recorded in: Ero segretario dei giovani comunisti italiani, e fui inviato dal segretario del nostro partito, Enrico Berlinguer, in Cina, alla fine del 1978. Ricordo che noi eravamo ospitati all'hotel Beijing, che era in quel momento…