"Only the prosecutors' witnesses were admitted, those of the defence were chucked out … Can there be worse justice than this? I am treated like a criminal."

"[To the] edge of the abyss."

"Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it … The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well."

"[On the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine] Putin was pushed by the Russian population, by his party and by his ministers to invent this special operation."

"The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv in a week, replace the Zelensky government with decent people and a week later come back."

"The aggression against Ukraine is unjustifiable and unacceptable, [Forza Italia's] position is clear. We will always be with the EU and Nato."

"Massacres of civilians in Bucha and other localities are real war crimes."

"I added extra stimulation ... if you win against one of these great teams, I’ll send a bus full of whores to the locker room."

"(Italian language) [...] io, a parlare con Zelensky, se fossi stato il Presidente del Consiglio non ci sarei mai andato. Perché, come sapete, stiamo assistendo alla devastazione del suo paese e alla strage di suoi soldati e di suoi civili. Bastava che lui cessasse di attaccare le due repubbliche autonome del Donbass e questo non sarebbe avvenuto; quindi io giudico molto molto, molto negativamente il comportamento di questo signore."

"One of the wildest elections in Italian history is finally over. And as expected, it came down to one guy, the guy who inspired a group of topless female protesters to storm his polling station. That looks so inappropriate. Shouting, "Enough, Berlusconi, enough!" That's right. Bunga, bunga is back. Yesterday and today, all of the headlines had been about Silvio Berlusconi's amazing return to power. There's just one problem. He lost. When all the votes were counted, Silvio finished with 31 percent, a strong showing but only good enough for second place behind a guy called Pier Luigi Bersani. But still every headline is about sweet Silvio, because sometimes you don't have to be first to be famous. Even people who hate him, and there are a lot of them, want to read and hear about him. … Silvio, Danica and Tiger, what a threesome. They're not famous for nothing. They are hugely successful at a level that most of us can only dream of. But what really matters is that they have that something, that ineffable and intangible something simply known as star power. People care about them. That's even when they lose, they're the ones we want to hear about. And maybe that's a great gift or maybe it leads to an intense stressful life since every loss and every failures in the headlines you can't have any secrets. Only perfection is enough."

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

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

"To me Silvio Berlusconi incarnates all the qualities a stateman should have. When I studied politics, I was taught that the ideal politician is a man who having had success in his own profession and not having economic worries for himself and his family, decides to devote part of his life to the service of his people at the local or national level, which is tantamount to saying that the ideal politician ought to be:"

"The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people."

"Think of how many women there are out there who would like to go to bed with me, but don't know it. Life is a problem of communication"

"I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out."

"We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago."

"They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims."

"I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy."

"I always win, I'm cursed to win."

"I know in Italy there is a producer, producing a film on Nazi concentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo. You would be perfect for that role."

"I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality."

"To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed."

"If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings."

"Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation."

"There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty."

"Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?"

"Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are."

"If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules."

"The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin."

"I used all my playboy skills and courted the Finnish President."

"We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes"

"I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone."

"By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar."

"Thank you dear Father Massimiliano, I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 [election]."

"Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller."

"Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists."

"Do it my way and earn more money."

"Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields."

"I have Italian citizens in too good consideration to think that there are so many voting assholes (literally: "coglioni", rude word for testicles) around which could vote against their own interests. I apologize for the rude but effective language."

"The April 9th/10th vote is like that one of 1948, when democratic forces rejected the communist offensive and firmly moved the Country to the West, towards democracy and its values."

"The journalist Enzo Biagi left the RAI out of free will … he did it for the money."

"The public prosecutor … should be subject to regular examinations to attest to sanity."

"Marcello Dell'Utri is right: Mangano was a hero, because he never invented anything about me."

"Ghe pensi mi."

"They're not gaffes. I've made no gaffes."

"The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful … the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women"

"People will vote for Daniela Santanchè because she is a beautiful babe."