“[For the C.E.1963 general elections] Motivational confessions had explained that, in the unconscious of the average Italian, the Dc more than a Father she was a Mother, or rather a matron: the little woman of Guareschi and Candido, weighed down by the years and unsuitable to guide the search for our new frontera. Did we want to "sell" the center-left? Well, let's try that old saleswoman. And we would have noticed. From Quando la Dc "aveva vent'anni", in Carlo Dané (ed.), Parole e immagini della Democrazia Cristiana, Broadcasting and Background, Rome, 1985, pp. 39-40.”