You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.

I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.