"Indeed, we were wrong not to speak out against the costs of politics, and none of us has become rich. We took refuge behind hypocrisy. But we paid the price for the fact that, for us Catholics in the Christian Democrats and for the Communists, money was the Devil's dung. We should have told the truth about the enormous cost of election campaigns. Besides, those who financed me were all friends; it was perfectly well known who was supporting me. Craxi also said this in his famous speech in Parliament. But, in hindsight, it can be said that many of the accusations against that ruling class were exaggerated."