Quote by Mario Monti
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governm

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. – Mario Monti

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If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. – Mario Monti

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Freedom
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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. – Mario Monti

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Leadership
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People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you cant think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. – Willie Stargell

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Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. – Fred Rogers

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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. – Max Planck

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