"I don't want to attack Andreotti, for heaven's sake, but how can we forget that he handed the State over to P2 by appointing Grassini, Santovito and Pelosi as heads of the secret services in 1978? All of them were members of P2. The same three who later investigated the Moro crime."

"It is still not completely clear how ramified this organisation is [ Fethullah Gülen ] which resembles your P2 lodge, a criminal organisation that calls itself religious."

"The instigators have never sat in the dock. During the years of massacres we realised that within the State there is an Anti-State: high PUDUIST officers who acted to divert the course of justice, also using Gladio or the Anello, implicated in the most murky events of our history. Evidence destroyed, witnesses systematically eliminated. A misdirection of enquiries that continues today."

"The Palace had its occult and transversal implications. P2 teaches. P2 has run transversally through all the institutions of the State. It's a fact, I'm not the one saying it, and I'm not accusing anyone because I'm not in a position to do so. [...] So the transversality of my alleged attitude within the Red Brigades is specious, so I don't feel in the least bit affected."

"[On P2] Three years later it became quite clear that that power group saw my presence at Eni as an insurmountable obstacle to the continuation of the business system that existed before my appointment in 1992, and was trying in every way possible to eliminate me."

"Since the landing of the Allies in Sicily, and the decision to involve the Mafia to facilitate it, a 'quiet life' relationship has been established with this criminal organisation, which has characterised decades of our history. It was a necessarily occult agreement. And even more occult and opaque has necessarily been its perpetuation. What could it have produced if not blackmail? The blackmail of the criminal powers over politics. Another example of that way of governing the country by compromise, and then by blackmail, is the 'Cirillo case'. Remember? A part of the DC came to an agreement with Raffaele Cutolo's Camorra to free councillor Ciro Cirillo, granting, in exchange, the criminality access to the public resources of the post-seismic reconstruction. And I could go on: Iri's slush funds; the P2..."

"Would Giulio Andreotti have been the true "master" of the P2 Lodge? For heaven's sake... I had the P2, Cossiga the Gladio and Andreotti the Ring."

"With P2 we had Italy in our hands. Then there was the Army, Financial Police, Police: they were clearly commanded by all people from the P2 Masonic lodge. [...] We never wanted to attack and we couldn't attack, but we were a sentinel to prevent the Communist Party from emerging."

"Being a piduist is not a title of demerit."

"P2 gathered the best men in the country, and signing up was not a mistake but an accident through no fault of our own."

"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."

"Gomez: But in the meantime we know how these things go: he will end up being acquitted."

"Licio Gelli: In this country there is the only charismatic figure who can truly lead it: Silvio Berlusconi."

"For a woman to be successful, she has to have a very supporting husband and family."

"Parliament is very unfriendly for a woman with a child. We are talking about it and we would like to see more women with children getting into parliament and then performing their parental duties without hindrance, without neglecting the children.""

"It's quite hard, especially because of African traditional culture where a woman's place is in the kitchen"

"Women have a tough time contesting elections and they have to show exemplary proficiency to get recognised."

"People were not used to seeing women in public meetings talking just like male politicians do. They realised that women can talk back."

"On this score, I will briefly address the re-entry of Biafra as a talking drum in our recent polity. A minister of state (Mrs. Dupe Adelaja) had the recklessness to say that Biafran soldiers cannot enjoy retirement benefits, not minding, for instance, the reality that some of them were Nigerian soldiers before the emergence of Biafra and that pardon has been granted to all ex-Biafran soldiers."

"I think the first thing is to warn INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) to be careful. It is in their interest to be good neighbors to Nigerians and prove that the country was not a banana republic as the ruling party is making us believe."

"I verily aver that the right or otherwise of the process of the evolution of the Electoral Bill into the Electoral Act 2001 is trite. However, it is noted that President Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ has pronounced that no law is perfect and that those opposed to the Electoral Act should go to court. It is equally notable that Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim has indicated that any law can be revisited any time in the future. These are food for sober reflection and positive action. Consequently, a few remarks thereon are mandatory and urgent."