If I was Berlusconi, who has changed a lot since 1994... I wouldn't even put one policeman in the Piazzas. I would let those kids break every window. I would let them do it: go ahead with iron and fire... your tango. I would want these kids to vent their anger. And then: Bang! Armoured vehicles on the streets... you would see that even today, exactly as in my era, the left invokes the police, the hard hand... This autumn will be 'hot' because the target is a big one. People will beg us to stop them. And then we will stop them with armoured cars and with loaded guns, authoprised to shoot and also to kill.... And we will clean up the piazzas."

Quoted in The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones at p.222.