Matteo Salvini

My pope is Benedict.

— Matteo Salvini

History goes in cycles.

— Matteo Salvini

We need deportation centres.

— Matteo Salvini

We need to increase deportations.

— Matteo Salvini

I'm a federalist.

— Matteo Salvini

Leave the euro? Surely yes.

— Matteo Salvini

Italians think with their heads.

— Matteo Salvini

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

— Matteo Salvini

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

— Matteo Salvini

I don't have to justify myself every time I go to Israel.

— Matteo Salvini

French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.

— Matteo Salvini

With nice words, we never obtained anything.

— Matteo Salvini

First of all we need to move past the euro.

— Matteo Salvini

I don't do my job as minister based on polls.

— Matteo Salvini

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

— Matteo Salvini

We will go to Europe to change the rules that have impoverished Italians.

— Matteo Salvini

No one will ever manage to convince me that the Fornero law is right and should not be changed.

— Matteo Salvini

Centuries of history risk disappearing if Islamization, which up until now has been underestimated, gains the upper hand.

— Matteo Salvini

Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.

— Matteo Salvini

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

— Matteo Salvini

We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

— Matteo Salvini

The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our…

— Matteo Salvini

Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to…

— Matteo Salvini

Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for…

— Matteo Salvini

Unfortunately, a certain type of Islam ghettoizes itself and is incompatible with our society. And it amazes me that some within the…

— Matteo Salvini

At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.

— Matteo Salvini

Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after…

— Matteo Salvini

The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on,…

— Matteo Salvini

I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency…

— Matteo Salvini

If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through…

— Matteo Salvini

The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying. There are more and more clashes, more and more demands. And I doubt…

— Matteo Salvini

The final objective is not to distribute the migrants among various European countries but to prevent them from entering Europe and from…

— Matteo Salvini

Good relations with Russia are great news. Putting a stop to the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] is great news. Defending American…

— Matteo Salvini

Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent.…

— Matteo Salvini

I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion…

— Matteo Salvini

In Italy there are 5 million legal migrants. They're integrated, and they're welcome. The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying.…

— Matteo Salvini

We do not accept lessons on rights or humanity from Mr. Macron.

— Matteo Salvini

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

— Matteo Salvini

People want identity, security, and jobs.

— Matteo Salvini

Italy no longer wants to be a servant to silly rules.

— Matteo Salvini