Most of the sane, non-facists in the Western world are rejoicing over the news of the defeat of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The man is a politician of such…unique…character, that he makes Alberta Premier Ralph Klien look like Pierre Trudeau!
Don’t believe me? Well, thanks to this list from the BBC, I can offer you words of damnation for Berlusconi’s own mouth…
At the launch of the 2006 election campaign:
“I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”
Promising to put family values at the centre of his campaign:
“I will try to meet your expectations, and I promise from now on, two-and-a-half months of absolute sexual abstinence, until [election day on] 9 April.”
To German MEP Martin Schulz, at start of Italy’s EU presidency in July 2003:
“I know that in Italy there is a man producing a film on Nazi concentration camps - I shall put you forward for the role of Kapo (guard chosen from among the prisoners) - you would be perfect.”
During the controversy raging over the above remark:
“I’ll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I am not sure I will be able to do it.”
To a German newspaper:
“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.”
On Italian secretaries (comments made at the New York stock exchange):
“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.”
And many, many, MANY more…
