Silvio Berlusconi: Right

Silvio Berlusconi is Italian politician. Explore interesting quotes on right.
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“We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes”

As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/20/italy
2006

“Marcello Dell'Utri is right: Mangano was a hero, because he never invented anything about me.”

Statement during a television show on La7 (9 April 2008)
2007

“Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.”

On public school, in Adoptions, gay couples and public school in la Repubblica (1 March 2011) http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2011/02/26/news/berlusconi_rafforza-12922793/index.html
2011

“There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty.”

Addressing the commander of the special italian police corp, Guardia di Finanza, whose job is to fight financial fraud and tax evasion in November of 2003, quoted in la Repubblica (17 febbraio 2004) http://www.repubblica.it/2004/b/sezioni/politica/cdlverifica2/candida/candida.html
2003

“The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful … the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women”

As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
2008