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born 1937 Italy

Fedele Confalonieri (born 6 August 1937) is an Italian manager and president of Mediaset. and since 2017, he has served as president of the Venerable Factory of the Duomo of Milan.

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The iPod: a little box that's a shortcut to mental laziness.

Music notes are discipline; they shape character and taste. It's a mistake to neglect music; it's an excellent teacher.

Berlusconi has always been seen as an outsider by the magistrates—albeit not all of them—and by the left-wing press. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy; it's a coincidence of strategies.

[Referring to Berlusconi] The "ad personam" laws? He makes them to protect himself. If you don't pass "ad personam" laws, you 'll go to prison.

Ministers don't earn much, but they have a status and a sense of fulfilment that should be enough; they should be content with that.

The truth is, if [Silvio Berlusconi] hadn't gone into politics, if he hadn't founded Forza Italia, today we would be under a bridge or in prison on mafia charges. There was no way we were going to win an acquittal in the Mondadori case.

(About Marina Berlusconi entering politics) It will never happen; she doesn't even remotely consider it.

I hated Scalfaro, I didn't like [[w:Carlo Azeglio Ciampi|Ciampi]; now Napolitano is doing a good job.

(About Umberto Bossi) He's a great politician; I admire him, for better or for worse.

I'd give Luca di Montezemolo some friendly advice, and I'd say it to him in Milanese: 'sta a cà tua' – stay at home, stay out of politics.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fedele Confalonieri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.