Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Matteo Salvini

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. He is Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord party since December 2013. He is a Senator in the Italian Senate since March 2018. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the constituency of North-West Italy from 2004 to 2018.

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.
The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.
I will seek to change some of the European treaties and regulations which penalise Italian people. — © Matteo Salvini
I will seek to change some of the European treaties and regulations which penalise Italian people.
It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.
In Italy, there's the need to help our kids have kids, not to have new slaves to replace the children we're not having.
We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.
French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.
We need to defend the fruits of our land.
The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.
The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.
I don't do my job as minister based on polls. — © Matteo Salvini
I don't do my job as minister based on polls.
Only Europeans can decide what is best for Europe.
I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.
We need deportation centres.
We will go to Europe to change the rules that have impoverished Italians.
We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.
On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.
Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.
Changing Europe is a big goal. But I think it is at our fingertips.
We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.
I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?
The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.
I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.
Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.
History goes in cycles.
Italians first!
Roberto Saviano is the last of my problems.
We need to put Italian interests before those of the European Union, or at least at the same level.
Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.
We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.
The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.
Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?
People want identity, security, and jobs.
With nice words, we never obtained anything. — © Matteo Salvini
With nice words, we never obtained anything.
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.
I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.
The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on, if Europe asks me to throw myself in a well, I'm not going to do that just because Europe is asking me to, am I?
If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.
I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.
'Populism' is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.
I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.
Italians think with their heads.
The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying. There are more and more clashes, more and more demands. And I doubt the compatibility of Italian law with Muslim law, because it's not just a religion but a law.
Leave the euro? Surely yes. — © Matteo Salvini
Leave the euro? Surely yes.
Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.
On immigration, the League and Five Star's positions start from notable distances.
The final objective is not to distribute the migrants among various European countries but to prevent them from entering Europe and from departing from Africa. We need to intervene in Africa. We need to have a Marshall Plan for Africa to improve living conditions in the countries of origin.
I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.
My pope is Benedict.
You can't die from going to the stadium to see a soccer match.
Long live sausage! Long live salami! Long live pork, coppa, and pancetta!
Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for me is a duty and a pleasure.
I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.
Who would have thought we would be part of a winning coalition in Molise and Sicily? That we would win in places like Siena, Viterbo, Pisa, and Terni?
I want to work for peace, not for war.
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