Silvio Quotes & Sayings

We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury. — Silvio Scaglia

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. — Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". — Silvio Berlusconi

Collaboration always wins over competition ... and is more fun, too. — Silvio Micali

It's better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men. — Silvio Berlusconi

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon. — Graydon Carter

Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world. — Silvio Scaglia

By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television. — Silvio Scaglia

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest. — Silvio Berlusconi

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx. — John Maynard Keynes

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi

Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice. — Silvio Scaglia

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German. — Silvio Berlusconi

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people. — Silvio Berlusconi

I'm a TV man, not a money man. — Silvio Santos

I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party. — Silvio Berlusconi

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar. — Silvio Berlusconi

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself. — Silvio Scaglia

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do. — Silvio Santos

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels. — Silvio Scaglia

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash. — Silvio Santos

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power. — Silvio Berlusconi

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case. — Silvio Berlusconi

I always win, I'm cursed to win. — Silvio Berlusconi

I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy. — Silvio Berlusconi

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual. — Silvio Berlusconi

When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, 'Yes', while the other 70% replied, 'What, again?' — Silvio Berlusconi

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. — Silvio Berlusconi

If you have no doubt in what you are about to do, you are not pushing yourself hard enough. — Silvio Micali

E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet. — Silvio Scaglia

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. — Silvio Berlusconi

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality . — Silvio Berlusconi

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. — Silvio Berlusconi

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. — Silvio Berlusconi

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all ... What a brutal job! — Silvio Berlusconi

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening. — Silvio Berlusconi

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. — Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know. — Bob Dylan

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago. — Silvio Berlusconi

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. — Silvio Berlusconi

I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out. — Silvio Berlusconi

We realized that Elite has the potential to really add value to a company like La Perla, due to its relationship to the fashion business, links to music, to entertainment, all of this tends to point more and more to the luxury consumer. The fashion world is one where Italy has clear excellence. I see the potential with it very clearly. — Silvio Scaglia

It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay. — Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio said with a fond smile. "That was when I knew you meant it."
"Meant what?"
"That you care about me." Silvio took the helmet again and stared at it like a postmodern Hamlet. "Franco told you about Toppolino. You remembered. I knew you cared about me."
"Of course I do. I love you, Silvio." He didn't cringe inwardly when Silvio's answer wasn't the one his wife gave him immediately. Silvio wasn't good at this, and he accepted it.
Silvio smiled and turned toward the door. "Same thing. — Aleksandr Voinov

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile. — Silvio Berlusconi

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 am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention. — Silvio Berlusconi

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist. — Silvio Berlusconi

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers. — Silvio Berlusconi

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller. — Silvio Berlusconi

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well. — Silvio Berlusconi

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender. — Silvio Berlusconi

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune. — Rory Bremner

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world. — Silvio Berlusconi

I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity. — Silvio Berlusconi

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone. — Silvio Berlusconi

Actually on the point of tears, though I knew perfectly well at that moment that all this was out of Pushkin's Silvio and Lermontov's Masquerade. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women. — Silvio Berlusconi

Stubborness is believing in yourself when nobody else does. — Silvio Micali

I'm 74 years old and, even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to me too much even for a 30-year-old. — Silvio Berlusconi

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide. — Silvio Berlusconi

Only I can turn this country around. — Silvio Berlusconi