Silvio Berlusconi

Italian PM, bunga bunga parties

Contemporary weird famous 122 sayings

Sayings by Silvio Berlusconi

They should look at it as a weekend of camping.

2009 — While visiting survivors of an earthquake in Abruzzo who were staying in emergency tents
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The West should be conscious of the superiority of our civilisation.

2201 — After the September 11 attacks, referring to Islamic countries
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It's better to be a beautiful girl rather than to be gay.

2010 — At a motorcycle industry show in Milan
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Shevchenko's departure? It was neither wanted by us nor caused by the will of the player. He had to submit to the wishes of his wife. And we know that wives are often like kapos to whom we cannot say no.

2006 — Commenting on Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko's transfer from AC Milan
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I would bring a bus of whores into the locker room.

2022 — Told players of his Monza football team if they managed to beat a top Serie A rival
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Mussolini never killed anyone. He just sent people on vacation.

2004 — Defending the record of Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, in an interview with The Spectato…
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Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong had babies boiled to fertilize the fields.

2006 — Allegation about Chinese communists
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The [Spanish] government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was too pink. He'll have problems leading them.

2008 — Mocking the prominent role women had in the new Spanish cabinet
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We would need as many soldiers as beautiful women and I don't think that would be possible, because our women are so beautiful.

2009 — Responding to a female journalist about rising sexual assault statistics in Rome
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When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, 'Yes', while the other 70% replied, 'What, again?'

2011 — Commenting on scandals over his private life
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I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.

Unknown — Self-deprecating (or self-aggrandizing) joke
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The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Unknown — Political commentary
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If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Unknown — Defending himself against conflict of interest accusations
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I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.

Unknown — Self-description
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Do it my way and earn more money.

Unknown — Advice to Italians trying to escape poverty
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This shitty country.

2011 — Wiretapped telephone intercept, referring to Italy
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Italy is now a great country to invest in... Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries… superb girls.

2003 — Explaining to American investors at the New York Stock Exchange why they should do business in Italy
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Ah, Barack Obama. You won't believe it, but the two of them sunbathe together, because the wife is also tanned.

2009 — Repeated the Obama 'suntanned' joke at a Milan rally of conservative supporters
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Imbeciles without a sense of humour.

2008 — Describing critics who took offense to his Obama comments
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She [Mercedes Bresso] is always in a bad mood because when she gets up in the morning and she looks at herself in the mirror to put her makeup on - and sees herself, her day is already ruined.

Unknown — About political rival Mercedes Bresso
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