June 12 () –
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the protagonist throughout his long political and business career in various controversies and his outbursts were common. These are some of his most striking phrases arranged chronologically.
1993. “Sometimes I’d like to step aside and let other people take over. Ungaretti comes to mind: ‘leave me like this, like a thing pushed away in a corner and forgotten’ for two or three days, of course. No more”.
1994. “I have not chosen politics. It is an imposition of History”.
1995. “You have to be missionaries, apostles, spread the Gospel of Forza Italia, the Gospel according to Silvio”.
1996. “The opposition is not in my DNA.”
1997. “Accusing me of corruption is like arresting Mother Teresa of Calcutta because a little girl from her institution has stolen an apple.”
2000. “I’m not an image maniac. I’m just trying to be professional.”
2001. “I have little (hair) because my brain has grown and expelled it outside.”
2002. “Rasmussen is the most handsome prime minister in Europe. I think I’m going to introduce him to my wife.”
2003. “Yes. It is true that the law is the same for everyone, but for me it is more equal than for others because the majority of Italians have voted for me.”
“Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini sent people on vacation.”
“These judges are doubly crazy! Firstly they are politically and secondly they are crazy whatever it takes. To do that job you have to be mentally disturbed (…). They are anthropologically different from the rest of the human race” .
“I know that in Italy there is a producer who is shooting a film about the Nazi concentration camps. I suggest that you (German politician Martin Schulz) play the role of capo. You would do very well.”
2006. “I have never done business with politics. In fact, I have lost money.”
“I have too much esteem for the intelligence of Italians to believe that there could be so many idiots as to vote against their own interests.”
2007. “If I had been a pretty girl, I would remember.” About Margaret Thatcher.
“I have discovered what the G-spot of women is. It is the last purchase ticket.”
“Zapatero has made a government that is too rosy that we cannot do because in Italy there is a preponderance of men.”
“I have told the (Russian, Dmitri Medvedev) president that Obama has everything to get along with him: he is young, handsome and even tanned.”
2009. “The genie of the lamp asked Franceschini (political rival) and he asks for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. The genie replies: it is impossible. He makes another wish. Then make me as smart as Berlusconi. The genie replies : what was the first wish?
2010. “Medvedev and Putin are a gift from God to your country.”
“Better to be passionate about pretty girls than to be gay.”
2011. “You already know that the left also wants bunga, bunga. It means having a good time, dancing and drinking. Even the left has been conquered by my way of life.”
2013. “My children say they feel like Jewish families in Germany during the Hitler regime.”
2015. “Enough. Don’t let emotion overwhelm us. Bunga, bunga for everyone!”. After being cleared of the Ruby case.
“Putin is a person who respects others, thoughtful. He is a deeply liberal man, who keeps his word, a true democrat. I have known him for more than 15 years. I almost consider him as my little brother (…). To this day he is the number one leader in the world.”
2016. “I have said that the Chinese communists ate children. It is true. They had a great famine and the children died because the women did not have milk, so to feed the other children they boiled them and ate them. Do I have to give Milan to them? ?”.
2022. “Putin has sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very nice letter for my birthday. I have responded with bottles of Lambrusco and an equally beautiful letter. I know him and he is a peaceful man, a sensible person.”
To his Monza soccer team. “Juventus, Milan are coming and if you beat one of these great teams I will send you a bus full of whores to the locker room.”
About Zelensky. “It would be enough for him to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbas and this would not have happened, so I rate this gentleman’s behavior very, very negatively.”
