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When there is less money circulating in people's pockets, citizens are more easily outraged.

— Piercamillo Davigo

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Do judiciary trials take too long? Because there are too many of them; if there were fewer, they would take less time.

Abroad, it takes courage to commit a crime; in Italy, it takes courage to remain honest.

In Italy, it pays to break the law because the law protects those who break it much more than those who suffer from its violations.

They say that Mani Pulite was a CIA conspiracy. And at the same time that it saved the communists: but then did the CIA save the communists?

In Italy, it pays to be a criminal.

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