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  1. Feb 9, 2006 · I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice. Silvio Berlusconi. Beautiful, Airplane, Sacrifice. 37 Copy quote. It’s better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men. Silvio Berlusconi. Beautiful, Gay, Men.

  2. Jun 12, 2023 · Here are some of his memorable quotes and quips: DEC 2022: Berlusconi tells players of his Monza soccer team he would bring "a bus of whores into the locker room" if they managed to beat a top ...

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    • ‘Only Napoleon Did More Than I Have Done’: on Politics
    • ‘Putin Sent Me 20 Bottles of Vodka’: on Russia and Ukraine
    • Goading and Insulting World Leaders
    • Racist Jibe
    • Offensive in A Crisis
    • Upsetting Muslims and Jews
    • Homophobia
    • Football and Misogyny

    “I am the Jesus Christ of politics,” Berlusconi told his supporters in 2006, according to Italian media. “I am a patient victim. I put up with everyone. I sacrifice myself for everyone.” He also compared himself to the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte that same year. “Only Napoleon did more than I have done,” he told an Italian TV talk show. “But I...

    In October, despite anger in the West over Russia’s war in Ukraine, Berlusconi stood by his old friend President Vladimir Putin and said: “Putin for my birthday sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very sweet letter. I replied with bottles of Lambrusco and an equally sweet letter.” Separately, Berlusconi also reportedly admonished Italian Prime Minist...

    During a group photograph at an informal European Union summit in Spain in 2002, Berlusconi raised two fingers behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister, Josep Pique, in the traditional Latin gesture for a cuckold. In 2005, Berlusconi said he had tried to charm Finland’s president, Tarja Halonen, to give up her country’s claim to host the new...

    The Italian leader’s interactions with Barack Obama started when the United States senator won the presidential election in 2008 and Berlusconi called the victor “handsome, young and also suntanned”.

    While visiting survivors of an earthquake in the central Italian region of Abruzzo in 2009, Berlusconi said of the people in emergency tents: “They should look at it as a weekend of camping.”

    In 2001, Berlusconi upset the Muslim world when he said the West “should be conscious of the superiority of our civilisation”. He said that while the West has a value system “that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it and guarantees respect for human rights and religion, … this respect certainly does not exist in...

    At a motorcycle industry show in Milan in 2010, he said it was “better to be a beautiful girl rather than to be gay”. “As always, I work without interruption, and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face – it’s better to like beautiful girls than to be gay,” he said.

    Berlusconi owned the Italian football club AC Milan from 1986 to 2017. In 2006, when Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko moved to play for Chelsea, Berlusconi blamed Shevchenko’s wife. “Shevchenko’s departure? It was neither wanted by us nor caused by the will of the player. He had to to submit to the wishes of his wife. And we know that wives are ...

  3. Jun 11, 2024 · To me Silvio Berlusconi incarnates all the qualities a stateman should have. When I studied politics, I was taught that the ideal politician is a man who having had success in his own profession and not having economic worries for himself and his family, decides to devote part of his life to the service of his people at the local or national level, which is tantamount to saying that the ideal ...

  4. Aug 5, 2023 · Officials at the Vatican chastised Berlusconi, saying such things shouldn’t be taken in jest. “Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.”. Benito Mussolini was the leader of the National Fascist Party and, in 1925, established a dictatorship in Italy. In 1935 he ordered the brutal ...

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  5. The quote by Silvio Berlusconi, "I am president of a country and I don't need to present my credentials to Bill Clinton," reflects a sense of pride and assertiveness often associated with Berlusconi's personality. As the former Prime Minister of Italy, Berlusconi embraced a strong and confident leadership style.

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  7. Aug 2, 2013 · In quotes: Italy's Silvio Berlusconi in his own words. Published. 2 August 2013. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. Image caption, Silvio Berlusconi is known for his blunt ...