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

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

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

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

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.

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