Top 15 Gianfranco Fini Quotes

As quoted in Fini, mea culpa su Meloni: "Ha fatto un capolavoro, mi sono sbagliato" (December 5, 2024)

I didn't believe that Giorgia Meloni could recompose a political community that had also been human: I was wrong, she has built a small authentic masterpiece, if today the right wing is the governing right wing, it is due to that political intuition to restore political dignity to the right wing.

[On Mussolini as the greatest political leader of the century] The answer is in the things I've done in the last years. I don't think the same anymore, I would be schyzophrenic.

The accession of Turkey [in the European Union] would be a sign of the full compatibility of Islam with democracy.

cited in «La destra si riconosca nell'antifascismo», Il Corriere della Sera, 13 September 2008.

Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Fini: "Una legge per coppie di fatto e gay", Il Giornale, 27 December 2006.

If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals].

October 2006; cited in Alberto Piccinini, Lezioni di storia, il manifesto, 9 settembre 2008, p. 12.

If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore

During his trip to Israel Fini in Israele "Il fascismo fu parte del male assoluto", 24 November 2003.

Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.