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born 1950 Italy
Antonio Di Pietro (born October 2, 1950) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament, an Italian Senator, and Minister of the Prodi Government.
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Two years to carry out Mani pulite and four to defend myself from the consequences.
In reality, Berlusconi is not interested in the good of the community, but only in his own impunity.
That those in politics betrayed me is understandable; politics is made up of traitors.
The South [of ITaly] needs action, not clowning around.
When there is a democratic emergency, you stay on the front line. You don't run away!
The wiretaps they want to limit show us a head of government who acts more like a pimp, busy placing showgirls who talked too much.
Faced with human suffering and fragility, only a miserable person rejoices and wishes for the worst. A man, if he is a man, expresses solidarity.
Berlusconi [...] is to politics what Fede is to information.
Before I leave, I would like to put everything online so that one day someone can read it and see a different truth from what has been told.
Berlusconi's politics as [...] Fede is information.
I understand that it's hard to accept something so simple; that a magistrate, a public prosecutor, gets it right for once and uncovers a series of crimes by conducting a thorough investigation.
Are thieves, corrupt individuals, tax evaders, mafia members or those who – like me – uncovered them with the Mani Pulite investigation a disgrace to the country?
I have always found the conflict between those who defend civil liberties and those who defend justice misleading. I am and always have been in favor of respecting the law.
It's not a day of celebration 25 years later. Twenty-five years have passed, but it seems to me that when I open the newspaper every morning, everything is the same as before.
(Addressing Giulio Tremonti If necessary, I would question you too, for that matter.
I was an emigrant, and I had no time for ideologies, neither communist nor fascist.
More than Videla, Berlusconi is Do Nascimiento.
I'll cut off my hand if Prodi falls for me... right here in front of you.
The IDV is a popular party that arose spontaneously and does not want to be ideologically defined. It is opposing the Berlusconi government, with good reason, on economic, institutional, and judicial policy.
I can't stand some of Maroni's racist remarks about immigrants, as I was one of them myself. But I was also a policeman. I appreciate the way Maroni defends his ministry.
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