Walter Veltroni Quotations

We have more growth, more employment, lower inflation and tourism is doing well.

We have looked for a good solution for everyone,

We still don't know what the circumstances of the crime were, if it was in some way related directly or indirectly to the violence shaking the Islamic community in so many countries.

We won't see any more of these unending lines of people who, regardless of the weather conditions, wait on line for hours.

Today, when Quincy Jones wants to stage a concert, he comes to Rome.

We wish to add our voices to calls that the forces of the police and army of the Yugoslav federation respect democracy and the will of the people.

Every time we dig underground we find some hidden marvel.

That's just not true any longer. Now we have the opposite problem. Rome is a global player. The city is taking a leadership role when you think of happening cities.

This is proof that we want to be known as the city of acceptance. I think these sorts of things mark the civilization of a city; they make it human. They build a sense of community and solidarity.

This is a city where you can go from Bernini to Michelangelo to Julius Caesar to Meier. This is what we want to protect, Rome's double identity. The city as a rigorous protector of its past but also driven towards the future.

A big city can be a mass of people in conflict - you have to develop a sense of relationship,

It will be a great event ... held in the most charming scenery in the world,

It's a picture that does not give certainty about the country's stability.

A personality that has contributed, in far away and difficult years, to spread and popularize in Italy the extraordinary artistic strength of jazz.

For the first time in 100 years we've passed an urban master plan that is going to expand the concept of the historic city,

The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country.