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1908–1999 Italy
Amintore Fanfani (6 February 1908 – 20 November 1999) was an Italian politician, historian of economics, and statesman who served as 32nd prime minister of Italy for five separate terms. He was one of the best-known Italian politicians after the Second World War and a historical figure of the left-wing faction of Christian Democracy.
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The universal revolt against capitalist civilisation, carried out in the name of an ideal of human dignity and justice, proves that the Christian conscience may fall asleep, but it cannot die.
No one has ever died from eating lettuce, whereas politics has claimed many victims.
I am an effective and engaging teaching tool.
I have often been three or four years ahead of my contemporaries, and perhaps some of my political defeats are due to this.
Even if a party imprudently calls itself Catholic, it should not be subordinate to the Church. This is in the interests of both sides.
(About Alcide De Gasperi) He was one of the very few men from whom I never heard a disrespectful opinion about anyone.
Do you want divorce? Then you should know that abortion will follow. And after that, same-sex marriage.
I do not forget the things that have hindered me and offended me, but I do not hold a grudge against those who did them. Nor do I seek revenge.
In politics, lies are of no use.
I am fond of Moro and have given him a lot of good advice, but he doesn't follow it and has got it into his head that I am his rival. Once Moro gets an idea into his head, there's no way of making him change it.
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