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(Commenting on the crisis of the left-wing government in February 2007) It's a disaster, I'm missing Roma in the Champions League...

— Massimo D'Alema

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As quoted in Massimo Giannini, L'amarezza di D'Alema "Cosa volevano di più?", Repubblica.it (February 22, 2007)

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I am a reasonable man of the left who seeks to work for the good of the country.

Nichi Vendola is the only one capable of reviving a modern version of left-wing politics; the others seem too disoriented to me.

While political analysts say that Vendola and Casini cannot be mixed, voters are showing that they are happy to mix them together.

We all agree on moving beyond alliances that are simply everyone ganging up against someone else, which does not mean isolation. Now it is a question of forming alliances based on shared programs.

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