It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

If your temper is violent towards your brothers and sisters in the Lord, whose kingdom are you trying to build?

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.