Giuliano Amato Quotations

We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers,

The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,

The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,

At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve of the 2006 budget,

Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that,

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.