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[antgonz]

This guy is truly great. Read some of his quotes.

"Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with." -Silvio Berlusconi

"I don't think there is any way of reconciling our marriage and she should be publicly apologizing to me. This is the third time she has done something like this during an election campaign and this time it is too much." -- Italian President Silvio Berlusconi on his wife's claim he "consorted with minors".

"I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests."

On Italian secretaries (comments made at the New York stock exchange):
"Italy is now a great country to invest in... today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgHDPxPf_A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3k9pMtrccQ&feature=fvst

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm


On himself:
"The best political leader in Europe and in the world."

"There is no-one on the world stage who can compete with me."

"Out of love for Italy, I felt I had to save it from the left."

"The right man in the right job."

"I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice."

On a proposal to base an EU food standards agency in Finland, rather than the Italian city of Parma:
"Parma is synonymous with good cuisine. The Finns don't even know what prosciutto is. I cannot accept this."


Silvio Berlusconi Quotes
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Silvio Berlusconi Summary


Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936 in Milan) is the Prime Minister of Italy and a media mogul.


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I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man ever became Prime Minister in Italy. (ASCA, January 25, 2002)

I always win, I'm cursed to win. (ANSA, May 24, 2003)

I know in Italy there is a producer, producing a film on Nazi concentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo. You would be perfect for that role. (said to German MEP Martin Schulz, European Parliament, July 2, 2003)

I'm a gentleman, a truthful person, a sir of absolute morality. (From "La Repubblica", July 13, 2003)

About magistrates he said: "To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed. If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings" (ANSA, September 5, 2003)

Mussolini never killed anybody, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. (From La voce di Rimini, September 11, 2003)

Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are. (Speech to the association Azzurri nel mondo, Lugano, October 24, 2004)

[1] Speaking in front of the commander of the special italian police corp, Guardia di Finanza, whose job is to fight financial frauds and tax evasion , he said "There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty". (November 11, 2004)

If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules. (from Corriere della Sera, January 17, 2005)

The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin. (newspaper La Repubblica, February 3, 2005)

[2] Asked to explain how Italy managed to get the support of its biggest competitor over the EU Food Authority dispute, he said "I used all my playboy skills and courted the Finnish President." (at the opening of the European Food Authority in Parma, June 21, 2005; the Finnish President in question was Tarja Halonen)

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar. (Italian Radio National Broadcast, January 18 2006)

Speaking at his party's convention in Sardinia on January 28, 2006, "Thank you dear Father Massimiliano, I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 [election]". (Daily Il Giornale, January 29, 2006)

[3] Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller. (Reuters, February 9, 2006)

Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists. (Speech in Ancona, February 11, 2006)

I'm the Jesus Christ of politics, I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone. (Reuters, February 12, 2006)

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". (an interview with Italian Telelombardia, March 6, 2006)

At the Brussels summit, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003: "Let's talk about football and women." (Turning to four-times-married German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder.) "Gerhard, why don't you start?"

Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields. (Naples Rally, March 28, 2006)

I have Italian citizens in too good consideration to think that there are so many voting assholes around which could vote against their own interests. I apologize for the rude but effective language. (Confcommercio meeting in Rome, April 4, 2006)

The April 9th/10th vote is like that one of 1948, when democratic forces rejected the communist offensive and firmly moved the Country to the West, towards democracy and its values. ("Affari Italiani" magazine, April 7, 2006).

Elections 2008: A few days before the elections, Berlusconi remembers one of his previous plans: submit judges at regular times to psychiatric examinations .

Under the previous government of Berlusconi, there were plans to change the juridical system radically and the above suggestion was one of the hot topics. "Info"

Elections 2008: Silvio Berlusconi says that the journalist Enzo biagi left the RAI out of free will
and that he did it for the money. The late Enzo Biagi was a famous and everywhere respected journalist. Enzo Biagi was one of the journalists that had to leave the RAI in 2002 after the so-called �Bulgarian diktat� of Silvio Berlusconi. He was accused by Berlusconi to make a criminal use of television. "Info"

Elections 2008: Berlusconi confirms the message of Senator Dell'Utri about the live sentenced maffia
member "Vittorio Mangano". "Dell�Utri" is Berlusconi's right hand and co founder of Forza Italia and has been convicted for numerous crimes and links to the maffia. He defines Mangano a �real� hero. Vittorio worked several years for Berlusconi as �horsekeeper� at his villa(although it seems that there were no horses�) This man has been defined by the judge Paulo Borsellino as the maffia link to North Italy . "Borsellino" died two months after this statement in one of Italies most brutal bomb attacks. Dell�Utri says literally that �Mangano was a hero because he never confessed under pressure compromising things about Berlusconi or Dell�Utri �.

Elections 2008: Silvio Berlusconi says that, in case of a possible victory, the as neutral regarded president Napolitano will have to make place for somebody of his coalition.
Elections 2008: Silvio Berlusconi gets a lot of critics because the business man and newspaper owner "Ciarrapico" , who is part of Berlusconi�s party, is a convinced fascist and brings until now very proudly the fascist greetings.
Guiseppe Ciarrapico is not only an editor of very dubious press releases but has been convicted for numerous crimes. Silvio Berlusconi says that the fascist simpaties of Ciarrapico are details and that this man is usefull to his party because he owns journals and magazines.

Elections 2008:Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections(an exception is made for political crimes)
Guiseppe Ciarrapico, as well as Marcello Dell�Utri, and many others with a criminal past and accused of mafia connections are now senators in the Italian parliament� More Quotes from Silvio Berlusconi one week before the 2008 elections

[Captain Corea]

How is this related to living in Korea?

[roadwork]

[samcheokguy]

the dude is funny.
I'm waiting for Obama to drop zingers.

[antgonz]

[prideofidaho]

This guy is fantastic. Thanks for posting this. The guy invented pompousness.

[SeoulFinn]

LINK

"[...]The Prime Minister continued by saying that he did not want to go further than this, because he liked Finland and Finnish women. Encouraged by the press conference audience�s laughter, the Prime Minister continued:

�I failed to complete the sentence. I was going to say, I love Finnish women so long as they are of age.�

With this joke Berlusconi referred to his ongoing divorce battle, which in recent days has been the most talked-about item in the Italian media.[...]

[Capo]

Prince phillip has the best quotes....

top 15 from 1 website
1. China State Visit, 1986

If you stay here much longer, you�ll all be slitty-eyed.

2. To a blind women with a guide

�Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?�

3. To an Aborigine in Australia

�Do you still throw spears at each other?�

4. To his wife, the Queen, after her coronation

�Where did you get the hat?�

5. When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union

�The bastards murdered half my family�

6. To a Briton in Budapest

�You can�t have been here that long � you haven�t got a pot belly.�

7. To a driving instructor in Scotland

�How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?�

8. After the Dunblane shooting

�If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?�

9. To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea

�You managed not to get eaten, then?�

10. To Elton John after hearing Elton had sold his Gold Aston Martin

�Oh, it�s you that owns that ghastly car � we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.�

11. On the London Traffic Debate

�The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism, we could stop the congestion.�

12. To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes

�You look like you�re ready for bed!�

13. Unknown

�If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it�s either a new woman or a new car!�

14. On key problems facing Brazil

�Brazilians live there�

15. To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean

�You have mosquitos. I have the Press�

Others....

�You are a woman, aren�t you?�
Asked of a Kenyan woman in 1984, just after she had presented him with a gift.

"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. "(1986)

"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation. "

[That fuse box] "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian."

"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing"