Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti OMI SMOM OCSG OESSHwas the 41st Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Christian Democracy party. Beginning as a protégé of Alcide De Gasperi, Andreotti achieved cabinet rank at a young age and occupied all the major offices of state over the course of a forty-year political career, being seen as a reassuring figure by the civil service, business community, and Vatican. In foreign policy, he guided Italy's European Union integration, and established closer relations with the...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 January 1919
CountryItaly
Power wears out those who don't have it
My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.
The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.
If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.
You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.