Ferruccio de Bortoli Quotes

La corruzione è una tassa occulta, frena gli investimenti esteri, distorce i mercati, umilia il merito e calpesta la cittadinanza.

Rating agencies assess the reliability of debtors. They form an oligopoly that is sometimes collusive. And they are among those most responsible for the financial crisis. To give just one example, they gave Lehman Brothers a triple A rating, the highest possible, shortly before it went bankrupt.

Una volta tanto si chiede al premier di pensare solo al Paese.

The first thing to say is that we do not deserve the mistrust of the markets. Families do not deserve it, as they work and save more than the European average. Businesses do not deserve it, as their exports are growing at the same rate as those of Germany. The politicians who deceive citizens by pretending to cut their spending and then scandalously going on holiday until 12 September deserve it.

Lei, combattente irriducibile dal suo eremo americano, amava andare controcorrente. Ma da sola.

Bossi non appare, anche agli stranieri, nel pieno delle sue facoltà.

She, an unyielding fighter from her American retreat, loved to go against the grain. But alone.

(About Tommaso Besozzi) He is both a reporter and a historian. He uncovers the invisible threads of mafia power, the conveniences that drive the island's powerful forces to use the bandit as their executioner, commissioning him to carry out the Portella della Ginestra massacre on 1 May 1947.

È insieme cronista e storico. Scopre i fili invisibili del potere mafioso, le convenienze che spingono i poteri forti dell'isola a servirsi del bandito giustiziere, a commissionargli la strage di Portella della Ginestra del primo maggio del 1947.

(Following the appeal by several members of the Popolo della Libertà party for clemency to be granted to Silvio Berlusconi) The demand for clemency, which is granted exclusively by the head of state and is strictly regulated by law, resembles an irregular and disorderly motion, undue pressure, useless in substance, dangerous in form, which would give the world the unpleasant impression that deliberate acts – which by their nature are decided with a cool head and at a distance from events (otherwise they would sound like a delegitimisation of the judiciary) – are possible by breaking down doors at the Quirinal Palace.

(About q:it:Dario Mellone) He wanted to devote himself, body and soul, to his great passion: painting. It was a solitary and total love. When I went to visit him, he would often entertain me with stories about his latest works. He would explain them to me in great detail, momentarily stepping out of his shy and reserved character.

Besozzi smontò la goffa verità ufficiale sulla fine del bandito di Montelepre [Salvatore Giuliano] e consentì di capire meglio i legami tra la mafia non solo siciliana — che si sbarazzò dell’ormai scomodo Turiddu — la politica e diversi apparati dello Stato.

We are neither credible nor serious. No one invests in Italy anymore, and those who lend us money want us to pay extortionate interest rates. Our image is in tatters. Those who work abroad feel deeply humiliated, accompanied by a growing sense of injustice at the way our country is being treated.

Martini sempre attento a non sommergere con la propria cultura l'interlocutore, discreto nell'entrare nelle vite degli altri ma generoso nel comprenderne le debolezze, nel porsi umilmente nella condizione di chi soffre, di chi non crede più o non ha mai creduto.

(About Silvio Berlusconi) For once, the prime minister is being asked to think only about the country.