Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

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

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.

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.

this heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures.

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.