Matteo Salvini
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.
Roberto Saviano is the last of my problems.
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.
My pope is Benedict.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
Italians think with their heads.
It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.
I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.
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.
Changing Europe is a big goal. But I think it is at our fingertips.
History goes in cycles.
Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.
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.
People want identity, security, and jobs.
Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.
With nice words, we never obtained anything.
We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.
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.
I don't do my job as minister based on polls.
We will go to Europe to change the rules that have impoverished Italians.
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 in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.
We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.
The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
We need to defend the fruits of our land.
I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.
I want to work for peace, not for war.
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
Leave the euro? Surely yes.
On immigration, the League and Five Star's positions start from notable distances.
You can't die from going to the stadium to see a soccer match.
I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.
Only Europeans can decide what is best for Europe.
I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.
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.
If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.
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.
We need to put Italian interests before those of the European Union, or at least at the same level.
I will seek to change some of the European treaties and regulations which penalise Italian people.
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?
We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.