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Silvio Berlusconi
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“Think of how many women there are out there who would like to go to bed with me, but don't know it. Life is a problem of communication”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Alexander Stille, "The Sack of Rome" (2006), page 59.
“I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.”
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Recorded in: In response to the September 11 attacks of al-Queda, in Berlusconi: "Attacco mirato senza vittime fra i civili", in la Repubblica (26 September 2001)
“They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims.”
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Recorded in: His response to widespread condemnation of the above comments, in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)
“I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.”
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Recorded in: ASCA (25 January 2002)
“I always win, I'm cursed to win.”
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Recorded in: ANSA (24 May 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.”
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Recorded in: Statement to German MEP Martin Schulz, European Parliament (2 July 2003), as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006), "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008), and in Italian …
“I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "La Repubblica" (13 July 2003)
“To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed.”
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Recorded in: On magistrates, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings.”
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Recorded in: ANSA (5 September 2003)
“Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in La voce di Rimini (11 September 2003)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Addressing the commander of the special italian police corp, Guardia di Finanza, whose job is to fight financial fraud and tax evasion in November of 2003, quoted in la Repubblica (17 febbraio 2004)
“Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?”
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Recorded in: At the Brussels summit, turning to the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 M…
“Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the association Azzurri nel mondo, Lugano (24 October 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.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Corriere della Sera (17 January 2005)
“The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in la Repubblica (3 February 2005)
“I used all my playboy skills and courted the Finnish President.”
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Recorded in: At the opening of the European Food Authority in Parma (21 June 2005), when asked to explain how Italy managed to get the support of its biggest competitor over the EU Food Authority dispute), as reported in "Foreign Mi…
“We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”
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Recorded in: At the launch of his 2006 campaign, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006), and "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.”
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Recorded in: Italian Radio National Broadcast (18 January 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].”
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Recorded in: Speaking at his party's convention in Sardinia (28 January 2006), as reported in Il Giornale (29 January 2006)
“Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Reuters (9 February 2006), "Berlusconi's boundless modesty: first it's Napoleon, now he's Jesus" by John Hooper, in The Guardian (13 February 2006), and "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Ancona (11 February 2006), as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“Do it my way and earn more money.”
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Recorded in: Advice to Italians trying to escape poverty, in an interview with Italian Telelombardia (6 March 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.”
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Recorded in: At a rally in Naples (28 March 2006) as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)
“I have Italian citizens in too good consideration to think that there are so many voting assholes (literally: "coglioni", rude word for testicles) around which could vote against their own interests. I apologize for the rude but effective language.”
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Recorded in: Confcommercio meeting in Rome (4 April 2006) as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in "Affari Italiani" magazine (7 April 2006)
“The journalist Enzo Biagi left the RAI out of free will … he did it for the money.”
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Recorded in: As reported in "Veteran Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, 87, dies in Milan" in Herald Tribune (6 November 2007); Enzo Biagi was one of the journalists that had to leave the RAI after the Editto Bulgaro of in 2002, in whic…
“The public prosecutor … should be subject to regular examinations to attest to sanity.”
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Recorded in: Calling for psychiatric examinations in regard to the life sentence of the Mafia-member Vittorio Mangano, whom Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, called a hero, as reported in 'Berlusconi: "Perizie per i pm" Dell'Utri: "Mangan…
“Marcello Dell'Utri is right: Mangano was a hero, because he never invented anything about me.”
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Recorded in: Statement during a television show on La7 (9 April 2008)
“Ghe pensi mi.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "The Day After" by de Gondi at The European Tribune (19 November 2007)
“They're not gaffes. I've made no gaffes.”
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Recorded in: On previous comments, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful … the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“People will vote for Daniela Santanchè because she is a beautiful babe.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“Ladies, I have a mission for you on election day: cook! Sweet and exquisite things, please. Bring them to the polling station to be examined. The boldest can try making a tart, the most skilful, profiteroles”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.”
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Recorded in: On aging, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“They keep calling me a dwarf, but I'm taller than Sarkozy and Putin.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
“Barack Obama being young, handsome and sun-tanned is going to get along with you swimmingly.”
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Recorded in: On the US president-elect to Dmitry Medvedev, as quoted in 'Italy's Berlusconi hails "suntanned" Obama' in Reuters (6 November 2008), "Berlusconi faces race row as he calls America's first black president 'suntanned'" i…
“We could not field a big enough force to avoid this risk [of rape]. We would need so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi criticised for 'pretty girl' rape comment" in The Telegraph (26 January 2009)
“In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.”
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Recorded in: On prosecutions against him, as quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi: I am inferior to no one in history" in The Guardian (10 October 2009)
“The real Italian anomaly is not Silvio Berlusconi but communist prosecutors and communist judges in Milan who have attacked him again and again since he entered politics.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi booed by audience after angry TV rant" in The Telegraph (29 October 2009)
“I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.”
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Recorded in: On Alexander Lukashenko, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus at belarus.by (1 December 2009) the official website of the Republic of Belarus
“Being a piduist is not a title of demerit.”
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Recorded in: Silvio Berlusconi, from Telelombardia. As quoted in «Di Pietro? Mi fa orrore» Berlusconi: non è demerito essere piduista, Corriere della Sera, p. 8 (March 7, 2000)
“P2 gathered the best men in the country, and signing up was not a mistake but an accident through no fault of our own.”
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Recorded in: Silvio Berlusconi. From the interview at Mixer (February 21, 1994); as quoted inLuciano Canfora Il capo dell'impresa, Corriere della Sera (March 10, 1994), p. 41
“When I received my membership card it said I was an apprentice bricklayer and I, who was a great home builder at the time, couldn't help but have a good laugh.”
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Recorded in: Silvio Berlusconi, from Telelombardia. As quoted in «Di Pietro? Mi fa orrore» Berlusconi: non è demerito essere piduista, Corriere della Sera, p. 8 (March 7, 2000)
“They called me, inviting me to watch L'Infedele. I'm watching a disgusting program, run in a despicable, vile and repulsive way. I've heard false and distorted views, far away from the truth. I've seen a representation of reality which is to the contrary of truth.”
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Recorded in: On the TV program L'infedele, called in during the show, reported in "Berlusconi insults Lerner live: you run a brothel program", Repubblica (25 January 2011)]
“I hope that in Egypt there can be a transition toward a more democratic system without a break from President Mubarak, who in the West, above all in the United States, is considered the wisest of men and a precise reference point.”
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Recorded in: On Hosni Mubarak, in the relation to the 2011 Egyptian protests, as quoted in Berlusconi: Hosni Mubarak Is 'The Wisest Of Men, in The Huffington Post (4 February 2011), and Berlusconi: Mubarak is a wise man at al Jazeer…
“We are worried about everything happening there, in all the area. I haven't yet heard from Gaddafi. The situation is evolving and so I don't feel I should disturb anyone.”
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Recorded in: On the 2011 Libyan protests, as quoted in EU Observer (21 February 2011)
“Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.”
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Recorded in: On public school, in Adoptions, gay couples and public school in la Repubblica (1 March 2011)
“I'm getting out to mind my own fucking business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this shitty country, of which I'm sickened.”
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Recorded in: On Italy, quoted in Berlusconi under fire for controversial comments about Italy at CNN (3 September 2011)