Silvio Berlusconi quotes

Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served multiple terms as Prime Minister of Italy. Known for his influential role in both business and politics, he shaped Italian public life for decades. He also became a controversial figure due to numerous legal issues and scandals. Here are 62 of his quotes:

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.

Silvio Berlusconi

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

Silvio Berlusconi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They're not gaffes. I've made no gaffes.

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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

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.

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

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

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

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Silvio Berlusconi

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

Silvio Berlusconi

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

Silvio Berlusconi

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

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.

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