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 Itali… - Maurizio Belpietro

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

(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.

(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.