Giulio Andreotti Quotes

#1. Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

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#2. I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

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#3. Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

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#4. If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

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#5. Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

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#6. Power wears out those who don't have it.

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#7. In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

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#8. I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

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#9. You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

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#10. Power tires only those who do not have it.

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#11. Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

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#12. We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.

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#13. The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.

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#14. In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

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#15. I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

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#16. I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

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#17. My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

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