Italy
- "Mi consenta" ("Allow me") – said by Silvio Berlusconi
- "CAPRA IGNORANTE !!" ("You ignorant goat!") – said by Vittorio Sgarbi
- "Culona inchiavabile" ("Unfuckable lard ass") - said by Silvio Berlusconi about Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel
- "Il potere logora chi non ce l'ha" ("Power tires only those who do not have it")- said by Giulio Andreotti
- "Riconosco i miei limiti ma non vivo in un mondo di giganti" ("I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.")- said by Giulio Andreotti
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“the San Marco Library,
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