Giulio Andreotti Quotes

• Power wears out those who don't have it

  Giulio Andreotti

  "Giulio Andreotti, former Italian prime minister, dies aged 94", www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2013.

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• You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Thinking, People, Sin

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• Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Desire, Disease

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• I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Life, Giants, Looks

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• I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Two, Germany

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• We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Jesus

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• Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

  Giulio Andreotti

  War

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• Power tires only those who do not have it.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Power, Tire

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• In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Church, Parables, Feels

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• My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Mother, Children, Father

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• In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Rainy Day, Sunny Day, Sunny

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• If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Lying, People, Twenties

  "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.

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• The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Law, Judging, Problem

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• Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Confusion, Habitual

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• I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Secret, Paradise, States

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• My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Justice, Way, Guilty

  "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.

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• Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Block, War, Views

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• I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

  Giulio Andreotti

  World, Next, Should

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