Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

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

Silvio Berlusconi
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 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
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
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.

Silvio Berlusconi
They called me, inviting me to watch L'Infedele. I'm watching a disgusting program, run in a despicable, vile and repulsive way. I've heard false and distorted views, far away from the truth. I've seen a representation of reality which is to the contrary of truth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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
By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

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

Silvio Berlusconi
We don't want to see just one forward up front. To win you have to score. To have chances you've got to have forwards close to the goal, I appreciated Leonardo a lot but I disagreed with him in how he fielded the team. Ronaldinho must play on the shoulder of the strikers even if he has a tendency to drift left. Ronaldinho has been linked in the media with a move away but Berlusconi was adamant the playmaker was staying. He is the No1 attraction at Milan," he said, "Ronaldinho does not want to leave. I'm sure he is happy to stay.
I would be happy for Gattuso to stay but we are not against people saying they want to leave, We can't exclude [the sale of Huntelaar] even if we are convinced of his qualities as a main striker.

Silvio Berlusconi
It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.

Silvio Berlusconi
They keep calling me a dwarf, but I'm taller than Sarkozy and Putin.

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
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
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

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