The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

- Giorgio Napolitano

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

- Giorgio Napolitano

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse o…

- Giorgio Napolitano

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

- Giorgio Napolitano

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-es…

- Giorgio Napolitano

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

- Giorgio Napolitano

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

- Giorgio Napolitano

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to buil…

- Giorgio Napolitano

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

- Giorgio Napolitano