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

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

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.