Giulio Andreotti
Power wears out those who don't have it.Collection: Power
You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.
Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.Collection: Desire
I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.Collection: Two
We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.Collection: Jesus
Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.Collection: War
In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.Collection: Church
My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.Collection: Mother
In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.Collection: Rainy Day
If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.Collection: Lying
The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.Collection: Law
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.Collection: Confusion
I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.Collection: Secret
My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.Collection: Justice