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.
Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.
In Italy, there's the need to help our kids have kids, not to have new slaves to replace the children we're not having.
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?
The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.
We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.
At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.
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.
We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.
Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.
Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for me is a duty and a pleasure.
Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.
The final objective is not to distribute the migrants among various European countries but to prevent them from entering Europe and from departing from Africa. We need to intervene in Africa. We need to have a Marshall Plan for Africa to improve living conditions in the countries of origin.
The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.
I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.
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?
On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.
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?