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

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.

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.

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

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.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.- Mark Twain

I came to singing organically.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.