All Quotes

"There was not a set of books, I couldn’t join a program, or take a class in any of this stuff so we built our own tools. We came up with our own systems for identifying vulnerability and building resiliency and it grew into an industry."

"It is really easy to say no, it’s very easy to reduce risk if the answer is always no, but it’s not very helpful to the business."

"I have seen a lot of organizations where security is set up to be the ‘no machine."

"My success is not possible without chancellors, presidents and leaders I’ve learned from, and each institution’s commitment to scholarship, innovation, academic excellence, community engagement and providing opportunities for all—which is exactly what inspired me to seek out this opportunity to lead Rutgers-Newark."

"Inspired by my parents’ belief in education as a pathway to liberation, meaning and purpose, I’ve dedicated my life to helping others obtain college degrees and upward mobility."

"To see the dedication and commitment to excellence, it exceeded my already high expectations."

"“Elementary colored acts are not wanted in white theaters, and white agencies tell us to our faces that they cannot use us and on every side the doors are shut in our face. It is time that we pull together and work for ourselves and [let] the white man see that we can do it without him.”"

"The judiciary must be seen to uphold the values of justice and independence for which they are renowned."

"Greater independence is intended to enhance public confidence in the judiciary, and also to ensure that the system of appointments is efficient, fair and transparent."

"Whatever system you construct you have to make sure that the composition of the selection body is independent and that body implements its processes fairly and openly."

"“It is not an exaggeration to say that liberal democracy is in a desperate state.”"

"“Political regimes may be based on electoral politics, but the rule of law, minority rights, freedom of the press, and other liberal protections are in danger.”"

"Freedoms once lost are difficult to regain."

"“Disillusionment with politics is rife, and many democracies are sliding toward autocracy.”"

"“Concern and outrage is not enough. We must understand the causes and develop strategies to respond to them.”"

""I did not want to be a social worker. I wanted to be an agent of change. I believe in social action,”"

"“Voluntary action is the mark of a free society.”"

"If you do things for the right reason you succeed."

"When you’re the leader, never try to score all your own goals, instead, empower other people to score the goals, this way you motivate other people."

"“It’s like litmus paper, it tells you what’s wrong with your organization as a whole.”"

"What I witnessed as a child was the way my father and my mother treated people. For them, people were equal whether they were black or white."

"“You know what, I didn’t see myself being an executive producer.”"

"That’s what we’re seeing and that’s why we get really excited about ‘Purchase for Progress’, because it’s made a difference across the entire value chain in a durable way."

"“You get a different respect when you can handle things on the behind the scenes end as well as in front of the camera or in front of the mic.”"

"(About the choice of Tony Renis as artistic director of the 2004 Sanremo Festival) A country that puts a man who proudly claims his Mafia friendships at the helm of the most important show on the most important public television network, a man who hosts bosses in his home, who has them brought lunch in their security cells when they are arrested, this is a country that sends a devastating message: being friends with the Mafia is not a problem, in fact it can be an advantage. And it is the same country that then puts its mafia victims on stamps and gives medals to orphans and widows."

"“I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don’t like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.”"

"People need to see the reality of the things that we’re living with."

"It’s just terrible and degrading that some people have to stoop that low."

"It’s easy to speak like that about other people when you’re hiding behind the screen."

"I think the behavior is disgusting and sad and sickening."

"But it doesn’t deter me."

"This legislation only seeks a consistent application of parental corporal discipline across all of Kansas’s 105 counties."

"(About Giorgio Gaber) He was an uncomfortable realist, he knew how to take stock of reality with the added bonus of wanting to change it, pointing out what he thought wasn't working. And I think this was mainly because he was a man of the theater. Because theater has always been about denunciation, while songs have not historically had the same function."

"(About Giorgio Gaber) Among the various memories I have of him on stage, what stands out is the profound feeling he left me with the first time I heard him shout about being communists, among other things, “because Enrico Berlinguer was a good person.” Another provocation, really, because it implied that ideologies are empty and that other things matter more. He pointed out that we often cling to them when we don't know how to define our identity, while normal things, such as being decent, can be a source of identity for man."

"I believe it would be scientifically very serious if one day we were to write the history of the Mafia as certain left-wing writers have written the history of [[Fascism]: that is, of a handful of criminals who hold in subjection a people who would not want to submit but are forced to do so by terror or a past of resignation."

"Discovering Genoa as it is described in books (and as its inhabitants love to recount it) is an enchanting experience. Firstly, because it restores that minimum of trust in the written word and oral tradition without which you would wander aimlessly in your musings on the universe. Secondly, because Genoa is truly beautiful. You look at it and it shines in its marvelous buildings, at any height above sea level. What's more, it is literally dazzling in its succession of imperial white, ocher, moss green, and reddish brown. From the Old Port to Matitone in the late morning hours, which should be scorching but are not. The streets are not noisy, because the August traffic makes everyone more civilized and carefree. All around and above you is breathtaking architecture of shapes and colors that you can stop and contemplate in ecstasy, without fear that every minute you pause will make your shirt stickier. In short, when it's not raining and there's no “macaia” (I've never understood how to spell it), Genoa is truly the most beautiful seaside city in Italy."

"When my government career came to an end, I received several offers to return to university as an associate professor. I chose Palermo because I consider it a bastion of legality, the place where I can best continue my civic and political commitment. Interviewer: What excites you most about returning? Nandoi dalla Chiesa: The desire to see my beloved places again and smell the scent of salt, jasmine, and orange blossom that I have carried with me. And then there is the sea at Mondello, the elegance of Via Libertà, and the delicious food. I know that many things have changed since my high school and military service days, but many others have remained the same. I will start again from these."

"It only becomes a sustainable and durable economic change for those farmers if we can substitute WFP with either a commercial market buyer or a government buyer."

"My earliest [memories of Palermo] are linked to the barracks on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, now named after my father, Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa. It is the headquarters of the Carabinieri Legion of sicily. At the end of the 1940s, my maternal grandfather was the commander, and I bear his name. Every summer, we would go to visit him. I remember his apartment and the stables. Then, in the late 1960s, I returned to that barracks as a teenager with my father, a Carabinieri colonel."

"In 1966, at the age of 17, I was struck by the sympathy that existed towards the Mafia. Even among my classmates at Garibaldi High School: when the boss Gerlando Alberti escaped a Carabinieri raid, many were happy and innocently took his side."

"I think that the mafia society has shrunk, but the pro-mafia society has expanded, that is, the society that manages to enter into synergy and convergence with the mafia for many reasons. In the North, we have been studying this worrying phenomenon for years."

"Nando dalla Chiesa, A teatro per la gente (pp. 63 – 64); in Andrea Pedrinelli (a cura di), Gaber, Giorgio, il Signor G. Raccontato da intellettuali, amici, artisti, Kowalski, Milano, 2008. ISBN 978-88-7496-754-4"

"Nando dalla Chiesa, Delitto imperfetto. Il generale, la mafia, la società italiana, Melampo, 2007. ISBN 9788889533208"

"At least, I said, if he has to be eliminated, the public must know about it, must be aware of it. The anti-Mafia pool must die in front of everyone, it must not die in silence."

"It must be [...] attributed to yet another recognition of Giuliano's investigative skills if what has only now emerged, following complex and exhausting preliminary investigations, had been accurately intuited and framed by him several years earlier. Without wishing to criticize anyone, it must be acknowledged that if other state bodies had adequately understood and supported Giuliano's intelligent investigative efforts, the organizational structures of the mafia would probably not have become so powerful and many brutal murders, including that of Giuliano himself, would not have been committed."

"It is beautiful to die for what you believe in; those who are afraid die every day, those who are not afraid die only once."

"I accept, I have always accepted more than the risk [...] the consequences of the work I do, the place where I do it and, I would say, even how I do it. I accept it because I chose, at a certain point in my life, to do it and I could say that I knew from the beginning that I had to run these risks. The feeling of being a survivor and of finding myself, as is believed, in extreme danger, is a feeling that cannot be separated from the fact that I still believe deeply in the work I do, I know it is necessary for me to do it, I know it is necessary for many others to do it with me. And I also know that we all have a moral duty to continue doing it without letting ourselves be influenced by the feeling, or even, I would say, the certainty, that all this may cost us dearly."

"The fight against the mafia, the first problem to be solved in our beautiful and unfortunate land, should not have been merely a detached act of repression, but a cultural and moral movement involving everyone, especially the younger generations, who are best suited to immediately appreciate the beauty of the fresh scent of freedom that makes one reject the stench of moral compromise, indifference, contiguity, and therefore complicity."

"It is normal for every person to feel fear, the important thing is that it is accompanied by courage. You must not let fear overwhelm you, otherwise it becomes an obstacle that prevents you from moving forward."

"(About Rocco Chinnici) [...] neither general indifference nor the dangerous and widespread temptation to coexist with the mafia phenomenon—often bordering on collusion—ever discouraged this man, who had, as he once told me, a “religion of work.”"