Mario Monti Quotes
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The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.
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Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
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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.
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I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
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In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
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I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.
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Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
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Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
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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.
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What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.
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The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
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I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'
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It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.
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The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.
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All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.
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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.
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My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
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If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.