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

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

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.

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.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.

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