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"Le Iene [TV program] are a bit of a cheat, but if my colleagues didn't use drugs, it wouldn't show."
"It is better for a child to stay in Africa than to be adopted by same-sex couples."
"(Responding to Silvio Berlusconi's provocation: ‘She is more beautiful than intelligent’) Evidently I am a woman who is not at his disposal."
"(On Walter Veltroni's candidacy in the Democratic Party primaries) And he would run in the name of what? Of a line with which we have already lost, in one fell swoop, government, alliances and elections?"
"Clearly, Berlusconi can no longer hold his majority together. It is a whole political phase that is coming to an end, for better or for worse. You see, Berlusconism has always been founded on ‘I am in charge here’. Now, given that the break with Fini is serious and that in the relationship with the Lega it is no longer the Cavaliere who has the ball in his hand, that method no longer works."
"Gelmini is the most cynical woman I have met in my life."
"(On the PD premier candidate's primaries) If Renzi wants to run for the primaries, he should resign from the PD, because the candidate is the PD secretary by statute. And if he is changed, then let him know that he will not be alone."
"The first results of our work show that among the names of the members of the Masonic Lodges of Calabria and Sicily, there are some who have been sentenced for 416 bis, i.e. for mafia association, and a considerable number of judicial situations in progress, defendants, remanded for trial, both of mafia crimes and of what we commonly call the spy crimes of mafia behaviour or in any case of collusion with the mafia. [...] For us, this investigation is very important, especially because we are talking about a sort of new mafia organisation that brings together pieces of the mafia, pieces of Freemasonry, the State, and the ruling classes of our country."
"Cosa nostra of Sicily and the 'ndrangheta of Calabria have from time immemorial and consistently to this day nurtured and cultivated a heightened interest in Freemasonry. [...] On the part of the Masonic associations, there has been a sort of surrender to the mafia. It is the cases, certainly the most recurrent, in which a form of mere tolerance is found that prove to be the most worrying."
"Malta has long been under observation because it has become a place where the Italian mafia operates in drug trafficking, gambling, immigration and oil trafficking: all businesses involving Italian citizens"
"The National Mourning for Berlusconi is inappropriate and misplaced. [...] I think that national mourning should be reserved for personalities who have united the country and not for those who have divided it, for people who have distinguished themselves for particular achievements, for personalities of art and culture, for those who have sacrificed their lives for the country. But I find national mourning inappropriate for a Prime Minister who was much loved but who was also capable of not being loved by others. And who was divisive on fundamental issues, such as the sense of institutions, respect for the Constitution, respect for women, the country's image around the world. Why the national mourning? Why should all the country's institutions have a flag at half-mast and Parliament be stopped? [...] We are in a phase of sanctification, carried out by its TV stations but also by RAI, which is not good for the country and does not correspond to the truth."
"Berlusconi has changed Italy a lot, but as far as I am concerned he has not changed it for the better, mainly because he has cleared certain attitudes towards women, money, and the sense of institutions. Berlusconi had a patronising attitude with all things in the world, such as women, politics, power, the relationship between public and private. He had a patrimonial relationship with all things and with all people around him. And that was unacceptable to me."
"But why does the Pd leave peace, work, the fight against poverty to others?"
"To the Pd, however, I reproach it for being too flat on supporting the Draghi government. It was right to support him, but it was necessary to be able to make it understood that the project of the left that was running to govern the country had another vision."
"The Pd needs clarity. Are they holding a congress? Let it avoid being just the election of a secretary."
"(On the appointment of the new secretary of the Democratic Party) The secretary or secretary is chosen after identifying the political community that he or she is to represent."
"I have a busy agenda since 2018, I am not a member of the P also because the PD has never shown that it needs me."
"[...] I would like us to overcome the two specular vices of the Italian Left: that of division and the minority and group tendency, and that of subalternity to the dominant liberalism thought imbued with manias of governmentalism."
"[...] with this electoral law that provides for alternating lists, if a woman accepts multiple candidacies, she knows perfectly well that she leaves the place to men."
"[...] the path of the war is creating an untenable situation for Ukrainee, for Russia and for Europe."
"(About the supply of weapons to Ukraine following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022) If I had been in parliament, I would have voted to send weapons, at least at the beginning, because an attacked country must be helped to defend itself."
"(On the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022) [...] these seven months of war tell us that the longer it goes on, the more complicated the road to a ceasefire and a possible understanding becomes. [...] I know that sitting at the table with the aggressor is repugnant, but compromise is also sought with the aggressor."
"Of course, if Rosy Bindi took the time this summer to reread the PD statute, she could not have failed to see that there is a rule preventing her from running for more than three terms. She is on her sixth."
"I have nothing personal against D'Alema, Bindi, Veltroni and the others: but they didn't make it. And so I say it, with the utmost respect and humility, but I say it: that's enough now, it's the turn of others. Their time is really over."
"I do not accept lessons in political ethics from Bindi: she is ugly, mean and a cretin."
"[Speaking of who would preside over a ‘coalition of democratic emergency ’] Rosy Bindi. A woman who represents the reaction to one of the most painful points of the cultural regression, holds a key institutional role such as that of vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, has the right profile to lead a rapid transition to normality."