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Whether you like him or hate him you have to admit that Silvio Berlusconi is an interesting character. The Prime Minister of Italy and media mogul manages to gaff at every opportunity so I thought I’d post some of his best here. Check it out.

On left wing voters:

“I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests.”

In the run off to see whether the EU Food Standards Agency would be based in Finland or the city of Parma:

“Parma is synonymous with good cuisine. The Finns don’t even know what prosciutto is. I cannot accept this.”

On the conflicts of him being PM and a media tycoon:

“If I, taking care of everyone’s interests, also take care of my own, you can’t talk about a conflict of interest.”

On himself:

“The best political leader in Europe and in the world.”

“There is no-one on the world stage who can compete with me.”

“Out of love for Italy, I felt I had to save it from the left.”

“The right man in the right job.”

“I don’t need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats… beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family… I am making a sacrifice.”

Comments made at the New York Stock Exchange:

“Italy is now a great country to invest in… today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries… superb girls.”

On China:

“Read The Black Book of Communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilise the fields.”

Oh Silvio!