Lorenzo Fontana

"(About homoparentality) The natural family is under attack. They want to dominate us and wipe out our people."

"On the one hand, the weakening of the family and the push for same-sex marriage and gender theory in schools; on the other, the mass immigration we are enduring and the simultaneous emigration of our young people abroad. These are all interconnected and interdependent issues, because these factors aim to eradicate our community and our traditions. The risk is the eradication of our people."

"Salvini’s approach [to politics] is winning. Today, the revolution of common sense has begun."

"It is not a question of being friends with Trump or Putin, but the most desiderable option is that it will be a dialogue between them."

"If we are partners and allies in Europe, we must be so on equal terms. For too long we have endured subjugation to Germany and France within the European institutions."

"For my part, I have been favourably impressed by many of Putin’s statements and by the great Christian religious revival taking place in the country, undoubtedly the result of a reaction to seventy years of Soviet rule. I have seen in this a ray of hope for us Westerners too, who are experiencing a major crisis of values, immersed as we are in a society culturally dominated by ethical relativism, which can be ruthless, as the news of recent days shows."

"I wish to speak out in support of strengthening family planning institutes in an effort to dissuade women from having an abortion. I am Catholic; I make no secret of it."

"We have stated things we thought were normal, almost taken for granted: that for a country to grow, it needs people to have children; that a mother is called a mother (and not "parent 1"); that a father is called a father (and not "parent 2")."

"(About Roberto Maroni) His human warmth, his profound ability to analyse economic and social phenomena, together with his constant pursuit of dialogue and debate, were unanimously appreciated and recognised by both friends and political opponents."

"(About the 2022 Ischia landslide) This latest disaster demonstrates that the formulation and implementation of forward-looking policies to adapt to climate change—the effects of which are now plain for all to see—can no longer be postponed."

"Mr President, I would like to thank you for acknowledging that climate change is happening. I am very pleased to hear this, because there are some members of this majority who have in the past claimed that climate change does not exist. Recognising this means taking concrete action, in our own small way and within our country, to save many lives in the future."