45 Quotes by Rocco Buttiglione

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured,