The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

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

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.