Berlusconi Quotes

• Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Advice, Trying, Way

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• Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

  Joichi Ito

  Media, People, Machines

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• Berlusconi is no longer fit to lead our country.

  Romano Prodi

  Country, Fit, Our Country

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• It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony....It's not the Muslims who are sick. It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It's not the Muslims who need to be cured. It's the imperialist countries that need to be cured.

  George Galloway

  Country, Iraq, People

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• Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Trials, Faces

  "Berlusconi would never have been shamed if he was gay - Putin". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 20, 2013.

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• [Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

  Indro Montanelli

  Art, Style, Genius

  "Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo" by Marco Travaglio, 2009.

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• Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

  Graydon Carter

  School, Men, Thinking

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• Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Class, Style, Doe

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• Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying","We understand how it is - we have one, too.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Empathy, Encounters

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.106, A&C Black

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• It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi.... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that.

  Laura Bush

  Strong, Thinking, Lunch

  "Laura Bush Arrives at Olympics". www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2006.

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