I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality. - Silvio Berlusconi

Barack Obama being young, handsome and sun-tanned is going to get along with you swimmingly.

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it … The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.