Top 15 Maurizio Belpietro Quotes

I have voted for various parties. Never the PCI or anything like that. Never AN. Never DC. Sometimes socialist, PRI. Once Lega. Last time Forza Italia.

The owner of the Omega agency gave me a photomontage with Pivetti‘s face on the body of a topless ballerina in a tutu. Knowing Farina’s total devotion to her, I called him and said, ‘Tomorrow I'm putting this photo of Pivetti with her breasts exposed on the front page’. He turned pale and started sweating. ‘Well, bare breasts, no, slightly exposed’. And I said, ‘What are you talking about, her tits are out’. He was a wreck: ‘We can't publish this photo’. ‘Are you kidding? On the front page! I spent a lot of money.’ Increasingly pale and exhausted, Farina took the photo, pulled out his cheque book and said, ’How much? I'll buy it.’

(About Sandro Bondi) He courageously said that Forza Italia must not become a party of membership cards. That people should not think in terms of factions but in a big way, like Berlusconi. Bondi was publicly mocked by Scajola for that courageous interview.

When I asked Luca Telese to come and work for us [Libro], Luca stammered: ‘But I'm left-wing.’ I replied: ‘Who better to report on the crisis of the left?’

(To the daily newspaper Libero) I had already hired Guzzanti. Vittorio had been less effective in recent years, Romagnoli had disappeared a bit, I was trying to hire Battista, but he said no, he was afraid, perhaps he dreamed of more important things. Galli della Loggia I simply forgot about him.

I got my biggest scoop when I found out that Antonio Baldassarre, former president of the Constitutional Court, was telling people that a general had told him that in order to stop the referendum on the Guardia di Finanza, he had gone to Scalfaro, who in turn had intervened with two members of the Constitutional Court. I got myself invited to a dinner, sat next to Baldassarre and listened to his story, which ended up in the newspaper the next day. Compared to that, the Watergate scandal was child's play.

When someone talks about freedom of the press, I laugh. I remember Eugenio Scalfari's heartfelt articles when De Benedetti ended up in prison. I remember memorable and comical pieces in Repubblica when De Benedetti presented his financial company. Not even the reports of the Duce's speeches were so enthusiastic. And la Stampa‘’ has to report on these days of crisis at Fiat. And Libero is running a series of investigations into the Roman health service without mentioning that its publisher, Angelucci, owns several clinics in Rome.

If we [il Giornale] are the newspaper of Forza Italia, la Repubblica is the newspaper of the DS.

I had a vague sympathy for the socialists. I also wrote for l'Espresso.

(Riferendosi a Silvio Berlusconi) Se per tenere a bada la sinistra, i maneggioni e gli spreconi devo pagare il prezzo di un capo di governo che tocca il sedere alle signore, non ho esitazioni. Meglio un vecchio porco, di tanti giovani ipocriti tipo Fini.

(Referring to Silvio Berlusconi) If, in order to keep the left, the wheeler-dealers and the spendthrifts at bay, I have to pay the price of having a head of government who touches women's bottoms, I have no hesitation. Better an old pig than lots of young hypocrites like Fini.

Per me il giornalista è colui che cerca la notizia e non chi ha ricevuto un patentino di pelle bordeaux nonostante una notizia in vita sua non l'abbia mai trovata.

For me, a journalist is someone who seeks out news, not someone who has been handed a burgundy leather badge despite never having found a single news story in their life.

La storia si è incaricata di smentire gli ottusi e i bugiardi con una lunga scia di sangue.

History has taken it upon itself to disprove the narrow-minded and the liars with a long trail of blood.