Massimo D'Alema Quotes

(About the passages about the Rotkopf company's planes) As for the flights, it is absurd to say that I could have paid for a scheduled flight. As a member of parliament, I do not pay for scheduled flights. If I took a ride to attend three rallies instead of one, the savings were for the taxpayers, not me. We used these flights for work reasons because one of our colleagues told us that this option was available. If I had known what had come to light, I would certainly have gone on foot.

La verità è che questo centrodestra naviga a vista. L'unica bussola sono gli interessi personali di Berlusconi: i processi, gli affari, le donne. Al di fuori di questo, non c'è più una politica. Non ci sono scelte, non ci sono contenuti. C'è il nulla.

(Concernong the 2012 Democratic Party primary elections) If you follow Matteo Renzi's path, you are headed for political disaster. (November 8, 2012)

Questo autolesionismo è la conferma di ciò che penso da anni. La sinistra di per sé è un male. Soltanto l'esistenza della destra rende questo male sopportabile.

(In 2021, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party) I was secretary of the Italian Communist Youth, and I was sent by our party secretary, Enrico Berlinguer, to China at the end of 1978. I remember that we were staying at the Beijing Hotel, which was perhaps the largest building in Beijing at the time. I remember the morning rustle of thousands and thousands of bicycles passing through Tiananmen Square, with the occasional car passing by. In a very short period of time, [China] has made an extraordinary leap towards modernity and progress, which will certainly remain the great historical achievement of the Communist Party. I believe that the most important thing China has managed to do is to lift at least 800 million people out of poverty: this is an extraordinary achievement. No country in the history of humanity has ever managed to achieve such an immense transformation in people's lives, in the sense that today China is a country where the scourge of poverty and hunger has been defeated or reduced to a totally marginal phenomenon; and this is an extraordinary historical achievement. Of course, [...] I also appreciate what has happened in recent years, because there has been a significant commitment to changing the Chinese model of development, especially in the sense of a development that is more compatible with the environment, more respectful of the environment, and more attentive to domestic consumption.

I am a reasonable man of the left who seeks to work for the good of the country.

A me non importa se Berlusconi vuole l'accordo sulle riforme per interesse personale.

Berlusconi speaks with his typical authoritarian mindset. (September 10, 1994)

Ah-ah! It's unthinkable that Dr. Berlusconi would enter politics. He has to take care of his debts. Stay put, he wouldn't get many votes anyway. This isn't Brazil! (1993)

[...] I travel around Italy and the dramatic theme that emerges is the profound suffering and great unease of the people. The country is pervaded by a sad passion. The only one who has painted a smile on his face is Il Cavaliere, but he, as we know, lives in another dimension that has nothing to do with reality.

La delegittimazione dei giudici scardina l'ordinamento democratico. (9 aprile 1996)

The PDS will never vote for an antitrust law that is not also voted for by the Polo. (June 12, 1995)

The delegitimization of judges undermines the democratic order. (April 9, 1996)

This self-harm confirms what I have believed for years. The left is inherently evil. Only the existence of the right makes this evil bearable.

Alla Piaggio c'erano operai veri, non quelli che si davano malati quando c'era una partita di calcio.