Andreotti Quotes

#1. Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

Paolo Sorrentino

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

Giulio Andreotti

#3. 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.

Giulio Andreotti

#4. Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow "unfair" to poor people, or, worse, racist, to let them in on the main secret of wealthy, educated and successful people: smaller families mean larger lives.

Carl Safina

#5. Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?

William Shakespeare

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

Giulio Andreotti

#7. Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what?

MaryElizabeth Williams

#8. My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Maria Semple

#9. She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

Alan Brennert

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

Giulio Andreotti

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

Giulio Andreotti

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

Giulio Andreotti

#13. I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

John Lennon

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

Giulio Andreotti

#15. Education is the transmission of civilization.

Ariel Durant

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

Giulio Andreotti

#17. Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. Slave or free, a man is nothing but a pile of bones and flesh with blood in the middle.

Christian Cameron

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

Giulio Andreotti

#20. I wasn't expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins.

Charles Stross

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

Giulio Andreotti

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

Giulio Andreotti

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

Giulio Andreotti

#24. 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.

Giulio Andreotti

#25. A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Holbrook Jackson

#26. 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.

Giulio Andreotti

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

Giulio Andreotti

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

Giulio Andreotti

#29. Nature represents a place deep inside us, that's why when we feel lost we long to be closer to nature

Steven Aitchison

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

Giulio Andreotti