Silvio Berlusconi Best 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only I can turn this country around. — Silvio Berlusconi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers. — 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 am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention. — 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

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

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

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

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