Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.