I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.

I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.

I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.

First of all we need to move past the euro.

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

We need to push our border across the Mediterranean - hoping that Libya can find a new balance as soon as possible.

In Italy there are two emergencies. This is what I hear, and this is what all the stats say. Employment and security.

If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

Only those who know how to breathe will survive.

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.