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Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

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

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won't score lots of goals, but they won't concede many, either.

I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.