Great Throughts Treasury

"I'm shouting for him, he will be a champion of peace... But he'll have a difficult task, to transform what it just a geographic area into a state."

"I'm open about this. I don't have any difficulty in admitting it."

"In exchange for the commitments I have made over almost 20 years in favor of my country and coming almost at the end of my public life, I have been rewarded with accusations and a verdict that is founded on absolutely nothing. Is this the way Italy recognizes the sacrifices and commitment of its best citizens? he said."

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

"In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German."

"In my opinion, and not only mine, I am the best prime minister we can find today."

"It became a very different evening than anyone thought. I was like ?I have to go? and he was saying ?Nowhere are you going, there?s going to be a party?, and I was like, ?No I gotta go, I really do."

"It is the most important contract I have ever signed in my life."

"in their fight against terrorism."

"It is an historic meeting of global significance."

"incompatible with the country's credibility."

"it would have been better to avoid military action."

"Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls."

"Italy is on the side of the United States and of all those who are committed to the fight against terrorism,"

"It?s better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men."

"Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century."

"I've never stopped supporting him. I've always followed his career, including his most recent and most difficult battle, to guide his country."

"It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!"

"It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay."

"Let's talk about football and women. (Turning to four-times-married German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder.) Gerhard, why don't you start?"

"Ladies, I have a mission for you on election day: cook! Sweet and exquisite things, please. Bring them to the polling station to be examined. The boldest can try making a tart, the most skilful, profiteroles"

"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."

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

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

"Mr. Rasmussen is not only a great colleague, he's also the best-looking prime minister in Europe."

"Mr. Obama is young, handsome and suntanned."

"Milan have to be Milan and it will be a prestigious evening against Barcelona, between two great teams, I think it will be entertaining, not only for us but all fans over Europe and the world."

"Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile."

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

"Mr. Schultz, I'm familiar with the fact that there is a producer in Italy making a movie about Nazi camps. I would recommend to you a role of guard. You would be perfect."

"Never in history have we seen an example of nations voluntarily deciding to exercise their sovereign powers jointly in the exclusive interest of their peoples, thus overcoming age-old impulses of rivalry and distrust."

"No intimidation must move us away from the willingness to help that country to be free, ever since a terrible war was declared by terrorism,"

"No intimidation will budge us from our willingness to help that country rise up again and rebuild itself with self-government, security and freedom,"

"Not even the economy is doing so badly."

"Of course they don't please me, but art has the right to choose -- and miss -- its targets."

"On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening."

"Only I can turn this country around."

"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."

"Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him."

"On Edge of abyss."

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

"Our determination is the same as those Italians in uniform who are honoring the coalition engaged in supporting Iraq on its road to democracy."

"Our troops in Iraq are not a force of occupation. They are a peacekeeping force operating under the aegis of the United Nations,"

"Our way of life, our destiny, both as Europeans and Italians, is tied to that of the United States,"

"Our hearts are bleeding. This government had bragged that it never put its hands in the pockets of Italians but the world situation changed. We are facing the biggest global challenge."

"Rasmusen is not just a good colleague, he is also the best looking European prime minister. He looks so good that I'm even considering introducing him to my wife."

"Patch up relations between the EU and the United States... which are fundamental to global peace."

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

"Out of love for Italy, I felt I had to save it from the left."

"Pain is at this time a feeling shared by the entire nation. But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region."