Cavour Quote by Denis Mack-Smith

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

— Mario Monti

“With Italy made, we must now make the Italians.” That’s what one Italian political leader said after the unification of Italy. A century and…

— Jean F. Blashfield

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

— Rodrigo Rato

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm,…

— Benito Mussolini

Clear precise aim: that of creating a unified and independent Italy.

— Petrucelli Della Gattina

I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with…

— Paolo Gentiloni

The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

— Mario Monti

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…

— Gianfranco Fini

Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only…

— Christopher Hitchens