Gianfranco Fini quotes
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“With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades.”
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“I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : Interview with Gianni Riotta, RaiUno channel, March 07, 2008.
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“Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : RaiNews24, November 16, 2007.
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“If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals].”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : Il Giornale, December 27, 2006.
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“If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy”
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“Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : Corriere della Sera Magazine, March 09, 2006.
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“Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.”
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“Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.”
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“If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.”
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“I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant.”
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“Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : Interview with Alberto Statera published in La Stampa, April 1994.
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“Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : Il Giornale, January 05, 1990.
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“It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences”
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“Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.”
-- Gianfranco FiniSource : Il Corriere della Sera, September 13, 2008.
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