Cesare Previti
Cesare Previti (born 21 October 1934) is a former Italian politician, disbarred lawyer, and convicted criminal. Along with Marcello Dell'Utri, he was a close friend and right-hand of Silvio Berlusconi and founder of Forza Italia (FI).
Quotes
[edit]- Se vinciamo, stavolta non faremo prigionieri.
- If we win, we won't take any prisoners this time.
- il Messaggero, 15 April 1996; quoted in Enrico Caiano, L' Ulivo insorge contro Previti, Corriere della Sera, 23 December 2000, p. 10.
- If we win, we won't take any prisoners this time.
Quotes about
[edit]- Criminals judge judges. We want to be judged by whoever we choose. Previti wants to be judged by a judge who thinks like him. But if the judge thought like Previti, he wouldn’t be a judge—he’d be a criminal.
- Beppe Grillo, Tutto il grillo che conta, Feltrinelli, 2006.
- Previti sued me for a billion because I compared him to a Rottweiler. It should be the Rottweiler Association suing for a billion because I compared them to Previti.
- Beppe Grillo, Tutto il grillo che conta, Feltrinelli, 2006.
- Previti can’t be judged because he’s a defendant, but also a member of parliament. But if I saw him near my car, I’d call the police.
- Beppe Grillo, Tutto il grillo che conta, Feltrinelli, 2006.
- I once saw it on TV—there was Previti, Ferrara, and Ignazio La Russa; oh, I thought it was an episode of Star Trek.
- Robeerto Benigni, Tuttobenigni 95/96.
- Previti is something of a Lombrosian symbol of the Italian political system's ills. He is the person most responsible for the situation in Italy, second only to Berlusconi.
- Willer Bordon, quoted in Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, Bordon, interviste.sabellifioretti.it, 8 September 2005.
- I believe I have made my opinion of Mr. Previti clear in terms so explicit that they may seem—to more than a few—brutal: a man who, just by looking at his face, makes you want to slap handcuffs on him before you even know who he is or what he has done.
- Indro Montanelli, La stanza di Montanelli – rubrica, 31 January 1998.
