Giorgio Napolitano Quotes & Sayings

“It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.”

“Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.”

“Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.”

“We have to continue our efforts with determination.”

“We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.”

“The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.”

“The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.”

“The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.”

“No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.”

“We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.”