"Everyone is calling for everyone to resign. Berlusconi over the Rubygate scandal, Bondi because a rotten wall collapsed in Pompeii, Rosi Mauro over the way she managed the Senate chamber, Calderoli..."

"Silvio Berlusconi has no respect for women; his life shows this day after day. He told that young woman in precarious employment to marry a billionaire: that is not the solution to precarious employment. Voting for Silvio Berlusconi is the most pointless vote women can cast."

"Our individual freedoms – the privacy of our conversations, our post and our homes – are being increasingly curtailed. Nowadays, we're all worried about talking on the phone..."

"We have left Silvio Berlusconi alone for too long in his denunciation of the 'iron axis' between judges and left-wing journalists. And we've left the journalists alone for too long. True journalists like Feltri, Belpietro, Ostellino, Ferrara, Fede and Rossella."

"For a Catholic, absolute evil is the Devil, not Fascism."

"Berlusconi has allied himself with the worst kind of traitor, Gianfranco Fini."

"We need the TSO here; put a straitjacket on her."

"Fascism was a period in our country's history, and today, anyone who opposes the cultural hegemony of the left is labelled a fascist, so just think how many times I've been told I'm a fascist. I'm proud to be a fascist, because I'm in good company."

"Daniela Santanché hates going out and going to parties."

"(Regarding Gaddafi's visit to Rome) When a Head of State visits think we need to show the respect that we sometimes lack a bit: I don't know if there were acrobats, dwarves and dancers on that occasion, because I wasn't there, so I can't know."

"I am one of the few female politicians in Italy who is not a tool of men. I am free and independent in my thinking. In fact, I think I'm more capable of using Berlusconi than the other way around."

"If they had used the same resources and technology for the search as they did to investigate the Olgettina girls, perhaps Yara would still be alive."

"Even if they make mistakes, law enforcement officers are never murderers."

"Regarding the media reports about his business activities... Some newspapers are spreading huge lies, which is why we are going to file our own lawsuit for damages [...] I hope that in a few years' time, I will have a tidy sum, and that with my damages, I might be able to help someone who needs me more. (13 July 2023)"

"Islam is a terminal cancer for the West; it must be eradicated before the metastases spread to Italy."

"They took it out on the volunteers who were looking for that poor girl, when in fact they are heroes. They even accused the community of Brembate of maintaining a code of silence, without realising that people in the North Italy are like that – they keep their grief to themselves."

"The only thing that is certain is that Berlusconi has genuinely been persecuted."

"We need to condemn them harshly; all racial laws should be condemned. However, I would never say that fascism is absolute evil, because for me, fascism is not absolute evil."

"Yara's community needs to know that even if they catch the monster, he'll only serve a third of his sentence, because we've basically forgotten about life imprisonment by now. Not to mention temporary releases – perhaps the first one to attend his father's funeral and the second to visit him in hospital, eh?"

"Over the course of my career, I have been pursued by several women, and I am flattered by that."

"Something tells me that the team of Sallusti and Santanchè will prove to be more active, imaginative and dynamic than the team of Feltri and Belpietro. In any case, it will be interesting, given that Sallusti relates to Pavolini in the same way that Feltri relates to Badoglio."

"Fini has become a party functionary, like so many others."

"I'm not into grey tones; I'm all for black or white."

"Berlusconi has given me several gifts: bracelets, necklaces and various tokens of affection on public holidays and on my birthdays. He is a generous man who cares about people; there are few like him. We are still friends. For a right-wing woman, this is a very important value, but unfortunately, Silvio has now descended into the political circus."

"(About Oriana Fallaci) [...] left to her own devices as she imagined a better world."

"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: after what happened to little Yara, the judges should resign."

"(Referring to Pier Ferdinando Casini) [...] if you try to be moderate at all costs, in the end you become modest."

"I do politics, and I am only willing to respond to political arguments. I've never made personal issues out of anything, never gossiped, and never resorted to backbiting."

"(About Giorgio Napolitano) I think he's the worst President of the Republic ever."

"America and the world need Trump. This is a time for identity, for borders, for exclusion – not for panic-stricken inclusion..."

"What's the point of tapping a mobster while he's talking to his mother? It's an abuse of power."

"I am also here because I could no longer put up with the views of those who – in order to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the financial and media community – go so far as to describe the twenty-year period of fascism as "the absolute evil"."

"There is none so deaf as he who will not hear. Disclosing wiretaps that relate to an individual's intimate and private life, rather than to the criminal offences for which the wiretapping was ordered, constitutes an unacceptable violation of that individual's privacy and rights."

"To build my career, I've never made compromises; I've never given in – in other words, I've never sold out."

"Fini disappointed me because he's afraid of women, because he doesn't believe in meritocracy, and because he makes you feel like he's the only intelligent person around."

"(About Muhammad) He was polygamous; he had nine wives, [...] the youngest of whom was nine years old. He was a paedophile. [...] In our culture, he was a paedophile."

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there was blatant wastage everywhere. Half the employees barely lifted a finger. They spent days listlessly scheduling meetings or organising the holiday calendar. A company grown fat on oil. For James it was like finding ripe fields of wheat yearning for the scythe. Roland felt like a snitch."

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in the warm, dark, cosy- fetid hold of a ship. What happened up at the helm was not their concern."

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It didn’t have to be. This was a ladder. And yet: he’d come first in the most prestigious course at the most famous university in the world, and he was sitting here in his boxers copying and pasting the item code for ironing boards. It didn’t feel as if he were ascending to greatness."

"James said that in years to come, when the company had swelled to thousands, people would brag about having been on this boat. It would be like saying you were with Mao on the Long March."

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things over” “by close of play”."

"It was as if they were together in their campaign tent, studying the map and deciding where to deploy their regiments."

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, free markets and personal self- realisation. Even the Russians and Chinese had hauled down the red flag and realised they'd rather have a nice time than a world revolution. Even the Irish had settled their eight-hundred-year vendetta, simply because no one wanted it any more."

"This was what it must be like when the winners of some shitty trophy in Slovenia qualified for the Champions League and came up against Real Madrid. It was the sheer embarrassment of having taken yourself seriously."

"Your work is the lifeline of your career, be glad that it’s moving"

"We have the talent; what we lack are the channels to turn that talent into something tangible."

"What we’re seeing now is a push factor. Talented professionals are losing faith in local opportunities. If we want to retain them, we need policy consistency and incentives, not short-term fixes and extra tax burdens."

"Toxic Group Toxic Life"

"Degrees are not translating into skills, and that’s a systemic failure."

"Talent is already here. It just needs to be channeled, We need to focus less on statistics and more on structure — the kind that helps youth not just enter the system but evolve within it"