Giorgio Napolitano

Giorgio Napolitano

Giorgio Napolitano (29 June 1925 – 22 September 2023) was an Italian politician who served as President of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first to be re-elected to the office.

Quotes

• Therefore, a new effort of national cohesion is required, as well as a concrete commitment to guarantee peace even outside the borders of Europe itself, to contribute to the construction of a New world order. Guaranteeing international security, preventing and overcoming crises and conflicts in near and faraway areas, is a responsibility that we cannot shirk, that we cannot - neither as Italians nor as Europeans - delegate to others.
  • Ci si richiede dunque un nuovo sforzo di coesione nazionale e un concreto impegno per garantire la pace anche al di fuori dei confini della stessa Europa, per contribuire alla costruzione di un nuovo ordine mondiale. Garantire la sicurezza internazionale, prevenire e superare crisi e conflitti in aree vicine e lontane, costituisce una responsabilità a cui non possiamo sottrarci, che non possiamo - né come italiani né come europei - delegare ad altri.
    • Speech by the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, on National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day (Rome, November 4, 2007)

• We have reached the point, a moment that has never been experienced since 1989: we need to reflect on the absolute need for a new, fairer and more sustainable world order.
  • Siamo arrivati al dunque, ad un momento che mai si era vissuto dal 1989: occorre riflettere sull’assoluta esigenza su cosa possa essere un nuovo, più giusto e sostenibile ordine mondiale.
    • As quoted in Migranti, Napolitano: ‘Governi dicano verità. Riflettere su nuovo ordine mondiale’, in Il Fatto Quotidiano (April 22, 2015; in Italian (with a similar Parliamentary speech video, dated back to January 2015)

Quotes about Napolitano

• [Napolitano] is my best Communist friend.
  • Henry Kissinger, as quoted in L'amicizia di Kissinger con Mario Draghi e l'incontro con Meloni, in Il foglio (November 30, 2023; in Italian)