Antonio Di Pietro
Overview
 
Antonio Di Pietro is an Italian
Italian people
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 politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
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, an Italian
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 Senator, and Minister of the Prodi Government. He was a prosecutor
Prosecutor
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 in the team known in Italy as Mani Pulite
Mani pulite
Mani pulite was a nationwide Italian judicial investigation into political corruption held in the 1990s. Mani pulite led to the demise of the so-called First Republic, resulting in the disappearance of many parties. Some politicians and industry leaders committed suicide after their crimes were...

 (Clean Hands) in the early 1990s.
Born into a poor rural family from Montenero di Bisaccia
Montenero di Bisaccia
Montenero di Bisaccia is a comune in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about 45 km north of Campobasso...

 (Molise
Molise
Molise is a region of Southern Italy, the second smallest of the regions. It was formerly part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise and now a separate entity...

), as a very young man Di Pietro would go to Germany
Germany
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 to work in the morning in a factory and in the afternoon in a sawmill in order to pay for his studies.
Quotations

Che c'azzecca?

Translation: What's the point?

…For God's sake yes or for God's sake no?

Aggressively said to Umberto Bossi|Umberto Bossi, leader of a populistic movement, when he tried to avoid answering directly to a question in the Milan courthouse about an illegal financing to his political movement for 200 millions lira|lire by saying "For God's sake!" instead of a plain "yes" or "no"; Bossi was later found guilty.

As a bricklayer|bricklayer I tried to build my walls straight, as a policeman|policeman I tried to arrest criminals, and as a judge|judge I tried to bring people to trial when there was good reason to do so.

Penal responsibility is personal, I cannot bring here a person with first name Communist and last name Party.

said when bribe to the Italian Communist Party|Italian Communist Party was alleged, but it was not proven who would have committed the facts

I am no politician and I don't think I'll get into politics. But, could you exclude the possibility that one day you'll get dressed as a woman?

Dec. 1995

When is the bidding starting for the Coliseum|Coliseum?

commenting on Giulio Tremonti|Giulio Tremonti's (vice-prime minister of Italy, and Berlusconi's long time ally) proposal to sell Italian beaches to fix Italy's budget problems

 
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