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.

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

[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.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

The love of power excludes all others.

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

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.