This isn't the Right, this is the billy-club. Italians don't know how to go Right without ending up in the billy-club. - Indro Montanelli

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

The list of P2 affiliates includes, they say, 953 names, corresponding to the highest ranks of politics, the judiciary, the armed forces, bureaucracy, industry and finance. All ‘brothers’. It's proof that, in this country, woe betide only children.

Let not the usual abstract arguments be brought to me, like the sacredness of life: no one contests the right of everyone to arrange their own life, I don't see why their own death has to be contested.