Indro Montanelli - Italian Quotes

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Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

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This isn't the Right, this is the billy-club. Italians don't know how to go Right without ending up in the billy-club.

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[A certain Italian judge] declared in an interview that at night he has no need of sleeping pills since, with regards to the Law, his conscience is at peace. We believe him without further ado. But if he asked himself the same question with regards to Justice, I ask myself if his sleep would be equally untroubled. And we are after all aware that he'll never ask himself this question, and on the contrary it would seem to him totally odd. Because, for an Italian judge, the Law and Justice have nothing to do with each other.

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Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.

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Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

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Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

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