{"id":1380,"date":"2009-10-11T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2009-10-11T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T15:29:07","slug":"qotd-silvio-berlusconi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/qotd-silvio-berlusconi\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Silvio Berlusconi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As Silvio Berlusconi yesterday tried to shore up his position by declaring himself irreplaceable as Italy&#8217;s head of government, a court in Milan was told it had been &#8220;amply demonstrated&#8221; that he was guilty of bribery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am, and not only in my own opinion, the best prime minister who could be found today,&#8221; he told a press conference. &#8220;I believe there is no one in history to whom I should feel inferior. Quite the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem, he explained, was that &#8220;In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide, because I have been subjected to more than 2,500 court hearings and <strong>I have the good luck &mdash; having worked well in the past and having accumulated an important wealth &mdash; to have been able to spend more than \u20ac200m in consultants and judges . . . I mean in consultants and lawyers.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>John Hooper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/oct\/09\/berlusconi-boast-best-in-history\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Silvio Berlusconi: I am inferior to no one in history&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, 2009-10-10<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Silvio Berlusconi yesterday tried to shore up his position by declaring himself irreplaceable as Italy&#8217;s head of government, a court in Milan was told it had been &#8220;amply demonstrated&#8221; that he was guilty of bribery. &#8220;I am, and not only in my own opinion, the best prime minister who could be found today,&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,339,53,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-italy","category-politics","category-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}