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If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny. ↗

— Mario Monti

#even #goes #italy #more #scrutiny

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#bible #book #defend #itself #than

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed. ↗

— Mario Monti

#becomes #destroyed #drifting #euro #europe

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive. ↗

— Mario Monti

#competitive #italy #more #needed #reforms

Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#assessment #best #companies #competition #considerations

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership. ↗

— Mario Monti

#brings #comes #countries #democracy #i

Terrible accident; body parts was everywhere—-fingers, toes, wings, beaks. Ambulance people tried to scoop him all up, but apparently it ain’t so easy as you might think—telling a chicken from a Chinaman, I mean. Anyways, they got his weight off his driver’s license, picked up a hundred and thirty pounds of pieces and buried ‘em. Now his wife come every year 'bout this time to pay her respects. We don't serve chicken while she's here. Hope you ain't got a taste for it. ↗

— R.J. Leahy

#fat-chance #humor #mystery #respect

The Italian economy has been held back for decades. ↗

— Mario Monti

#been #decades #economy #held #italian

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed. ↗

— Mario Monti

#confirmation #confirmed #europe #fact #go