Silvio Berlusconi
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"Silvio Berlusconi" is an Italian people/Italian media proprietor/media tycoon and politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owner of the Football in Italy/Italian football club A.C. Milan since 1986. He is nicknamed Il Cavaliere (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2013.

In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 141st richest man in the world with a net worth of US$9.0 1,000,000,000 (number)/billion. In 2009 Forbes ranked him 12th in the Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People/List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination in Politics of Italy/Italian politics.

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We are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity.

Only I can turn this country around.

Farce compared to U.S. primaries.

Defender and promoter of freedom and democracy.

Not even the economy is doing so badly.

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.