Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

[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.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.