Rosy Bindi Quotes

(On the PD premier candidate's primaries) If Renzi wants to run for the primaries, he should resign from the PD, because the candidate is the PD secretary by statute. And if he is changed, then let him know that he will not be alone.

(On the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022) [...] these seven months of war tell us that the longer it goes on, the more complicated the road to a ceasefire and a possible understanding becomes. [...] I know that sitting at the table with the aggressor is repugnant, but compromise is also sought with the aggressor.

The National Mourning for Berlusconi is inappropriate and misplaced. [...] I think that national mourning should be reserved for personalities who have united the country and not for those who have divided it, for people who have distinguished themselves for particular achievements, for personalities of art and culture, for those who have sacrificed their lives for the country. But I find national mourning inappropriate for a Prime Minister who was much loved but who was also capable of not being loved by others. And who was divisive on fundamental issues, such as the sense of institutions, respect for the Constitution, respect for women, the country's image around the world. Why the national mourning? Why should all the country's institutions have a flag at half-mast and Parliament be stopped? [...] We are in a phase of sanctification, carried out by its TV stations but also by RAI, which is not good for the country and does not correspond to the truth.

The Pd needs clarity. Are they holding a congress? Let it avoid being just the election of a secretary.

In tutta evidenza, Berlusconi non riesce più a tenere assieme la sua maggioranza. È un'intera fase politica che si chiude, nel bene e nel male. Vede, il berlusconismo è sempre stato fondato sul “qui comando io”. Adesso, visto che la rottura con Fini è seria e che nel rapporto con la Lega non è più il Cavaliere ad avere il pallino in mano, quel metodo non funziona più.

Berlusconi has changed Italy a lot, but as far as I am concerned he has not changed it for the better, mainly because he has cleared certain attitudes towards women, money, and the sense of institutions. Berlusconi had a patronising attitude with all things in the world, such as women, politics, power, the relationship between public and private. He had a patrimonial relationship with all things and with all people around him. And that was unacceptable to me.

[...] with this electoral law that provides for alternating lists, if a woman accepts multiple candidacies, she knows perfectly well that she leaves the place to men.

I have a busy agenda since 2018, I am not a member of the P also because the PD has never shown that it needs me.

È meglio che un bambino resti in Africa piuttosto che sia adottato da una coppia omosessuale.

[...] I would like us to overcome the two specular vices of the Italian Left: that of division and the minority and group tendency, and that of subalternity to the dominant liberalism thought imbued with manias of governmentalism.

Berlusconi ha cambiato tanto l'Italia, ma per quanto mi riguarda non l’ha cambiata in meglio, soprattutto perché ha sdoganato certi comportamenti nei confronti delle donne, del denaro, del senso delle istituzioni. Berlusconi ha avuto un atteggiamento padronale con tutte le cose al mondo, come le donne, la politica, il potere, il rapporto tra pubblico e privato. Lui ha avuto un rapporto patrimoniale con tutte le cose e con tutte le persone che lo circondavano. E questo per me era inaccettabile.

Le Iene [TV program] are a bit of a cheat, but if my colleagues didn't use drugs, it wouldn't show.

The first results of our work show that among the names of the members of the Masonic Lodges of Calabria and Sicily, there are some who have been sentenced for 416 bis, i.e. for mafia association, and a considerable number of judicial situations in progress, defendants, remanded for trial, both of mafia crimes and of what we commonly call the spy crimes of mafia behaviour or in any case of collusion with the mafia. [...] For us, this investigation is very important, especially because we are talking about a sort of new mafia organisation that brings together pieces of the mafia, pieces of Freemasonry, the State, and the ruling classes of our country.

Gelmini is the most cynical woman I have met in my life.

Gelmini è la donna più cinica che io ho incontrato nella mia vita.