Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 September 1936
CityMilan, Italy
CountryItaly
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The historic cost of inaction might be incalculable,
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I have never before read such rubbish in the newspapers as I did this morning ...: 'Bush contradicts Berlusconi'. When? How? About what?,
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I certainly express the feelings of all Italians, and am particularly delighted, when I present Your Holiness with the warm and respectful homage of the Italian government.
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He expressed his own personal position which in many ways can be considered well-founded,
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I'm shouting for him, he will be a champion of peace, ... But he'll have a difficult task, to transform what it just a geographic area into a state.
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Pain is at this time a feeling shared by the entire nation. But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops ... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region.
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You conquered everyone because you were so spontaneous, so natural, ... It was such a frank way to say things, because yes is yes, no is no .... With President Bush, everything is simple.
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Both public and private television have been full of shows, opinion makers and people who attack Berlusconi or make satire about Berlusconi, often overstepping the threshold of truth and good taste,
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A formula for reform must be found capable of overcoming such embarrassment and a positive way of leading this institution to greater strength, to greater authority for resolving international problems and international crises must be found,
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Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,
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elected by moderate voters who mandated these gentlemen to do the exact opposite of what they're now doing.
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Our determination is the same as those Italians in uniform who are honoring the coalition engaged in supporting Iraq on its road to democracy,
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I can guarantee that there were not any documents passed to the Americans,
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Never in history have we seen an example of nations voluntarily deciding to exercise their sovereign powers jointly in the exclusive interest of their peoples, thus overcoming age-old impulses of rivalry and distrust,