Matteo Salvini

“Long live sausage! Long live salami! Long live pork, coppa, and pancetta!”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.”

“We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.”

“Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.”

“I will seek to change some of the European treaties and regulations which penalise Italian people.”

“Centuries of history risk disappearing if Islamization, which up until now has been underestimated, gains the upper hand.”

“If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.”