The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.
Indro Montanelli[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 MontanelliMen do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.
Indro MontanelliServitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
Indro MontanelliItalian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.
Indro MontanelliI 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.
Indro Montanelli