Silvio Berlusconi Quotes (76 Quotes)

I think this is a provision that was wanted by the large majority of Italians,

Relations between Italy and the United States are strong,, ... strong commitment to the freedom of people in Afghanistan and Iraq.

it would have been better to avoid military action.

The very idea of disputing the freedom of conscience and opinion of a commissioner of Catholic faith, contesting his own secular distinction between morality and law, smells of fundamentalism if not obscurantism,

worried about the possible violence.

We are all grateful for the tireless work and suffering that he bore incessantly against every form of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation in the name of the values of the Catholic Church that are also the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity.

a habit for me to come pay homage to the president in the Oval Office.

We must insist in our commitment and assist the forces of a free and democratic new Iraq,

I tried many times to convince the American president not to go to war,

I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 2006.

We believe that there will not be wide consensus and that we should not now discuss reform which could make many countries representing entire continents unhappy,

It is the most important contract I have ever signed in my life.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

he must do what his conscience tells him.

Pain is at this time a feeling shared by the entire nation. But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops ... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region.

an eventual bird flu epidemic.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

The absence of deliberateness doesn't indeed rule out blame,

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Our determination is the same as those Italians in uniform who are honoring the coalition engaged in supporting Iraq on its road to democracy,

I have never been convinced war was the best way to succeed in making a country democratic and extract it from a ... bloody dictatorship, ... I tried on several occasions to convince the American president not to wage war.

There are no words for an inhumane act that ... cancels centuries of civilization to bring us back to the Dark Ages,

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

I believe that at the end of 2006, our forces will be able to gradually replace the international forces,

Rasmusen is not just a good colleague, he is also the best looking European prime minister. He looks so good that I'm even considering introducing him to my wife.