Quote of the Week

I don't think I have a dog in the hunt one way or the other in the fight over the constitutional reforms Italian voters just overwhelmingly rejected. But, I'm pretty sure you can't convince Italian voters to vote your way by saying things like this:

"Italians are disgusting and Italy is disgusting. Because it doesn't want to be modern," Francesco Speroni, a deputy in the European Parliament and member of the far-right Northern League party, was quoted as saying by the online daily, Affaritaliani.it.