If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.
— Matteo Salvini
Only Europeans can decide what is best for Europe.
On immigration, the League and Five Star's positions start from notable distances.
The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.
We need to defend the fruits of our land.
I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.
I don't do my job as minister based on polls.
With nice words, we never obtained anything.
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.
Italians first!
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.
Italians think with their heads.
At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.
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?
Roberto Saviano is the last of my problems.
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?
The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying. There are more and more clashes, more and more demands. And I doubt the compatibility of Italian law with Muslim law, because it's not just a religion but a law.
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.
I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.
Leave the euro? Surely yes.
I want to work for peace, not for war.
The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
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.
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.
Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.
Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.
Changing Europe is a big goal. But I think it is at our fingertips.
I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
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.
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.
We need deportation centres.
Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.
'Populism' is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.
I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.
You can't die from going to the stadium to see a soccer match.
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.
We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.
We will go to Europe to change the rules that have impoverished Italians.
We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.
People want identity, security, and jobs.
History goes in cycles.
We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.
It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.
My pope is Benedict.
The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.
Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.
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.
I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.
