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“I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.”
“Who would have thought we would be part of a winning coalition in Molise and Sicily? That we would win in places like Siena, Viterbo, Pisa, and Terni?”
“I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.”
“Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.”
“The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on, if Europe asks me to throw myself in a well, I'm not going to do that just because Europe is asking me to, am I?”
“Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.”
“Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?”
“We need to review treaties to make them reflect our national interest.”
“We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.”
“Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet.”
“The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.”
“I want to change Italy and get the economy back on track.”
“Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.”
“Centuries of history risk disappearing if Islamization, which up until now has been underestimated, gains the upper hand.”
“I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.”
“We want to give a voice to all the good people of the South.”
“Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national currency.”
“Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.”
“The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.”
“We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.”