Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

I don't want to hear about my death.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Heroes can be sweet.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.