23 Quotes by Giulio Andreotti

We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.