Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

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The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful … the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women

Silvio Berlusconi
People will vote for Daniela Santanchè because she is a beautiful babe.

Silvio Berlusconi
We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes

Silvio Berlusconi
Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.

Silvio Berlusconi
I'm getting out to mind my own fucking business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this shitty country, of which I'm sickened.
On Italy

Silvio Berlusconi
We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … 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.

Silvio Berlusconi
Thank you dear Father Massimiliano, I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 [election].

Silvio Berlusconi
The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin.

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The real Italian anomaly is not Silvio Berlusconi but communist prosecutors and communist judges in Milan who have attacked him again and again since he entered politics.

Silvio Berlusconi
Only the prosecutors' witnesses were admitted, those of the defence were chucked out … Can there be worse justice than this? I am treated like a criminal.

Silvio Berlusconi
There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty.

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I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.

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Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?

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I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

Silvio Berlusconi
We could not field a big enough force to avoid this risk [of rape]. We would need so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful.

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The April 9th/10th vote is like that one of 1948, when democratic forces rejected the communist offensive and firmly moved the Country to the West, towards democracy and its values.

Silvio Berlusconi
I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.

Silvio Berlusconi
I hope that in Egypt there can be a transition toward a more democratic system without a break from President Mubarak, who in the West, above all in the United States, is considered the wisest of men and a precise reference point.

Silvio Berlusconi
On the US president-elect to Dmitry Medvedev:
Barack Obama being young, handsome and sun-tanned is going to get along with you swimmingly.

Silvio Berlusconi
Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

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I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Silvio Berlusconi
Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields.

Silvio Berlusconi
Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists.

Silvio Berlusconi
We are worried about everything happening there, in all the area. I haven't yet heard from Gaddafi. The situation is evolving and so I don't feel I should disturb anyone.

Silvio Berlusconi
Marcello Dell'Utri is right: Mangano was a hero, because he never invented anything about me.

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If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings.

Silvio Berlusconi
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.

Silvio Berlusconi
Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it … The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

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I have Italian citizens in too good consideration to think that there are so many voting assholes (literally: "coglioni", rude word for testicles) around which could vote against their own interests. I apologize for the rude but effective language.

Silvio Berlusconi
They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims.

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