Silvio Berlusconi's top 10 gaffes, japes and pranks

The Telegraph ^ | 11/14/11 | The Telegraph

[aquila48]

10. He advised investors in New York to relocate to Italy because the secretaries were better looking than their American counterparts. "Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries ... superb girls." He also told the New York stock exchange: "Italy is now a great country to invest in ... today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one."

[aquila48]

Like him or hate him - he was a hoot! He was as un-PC as it gets, and didn't give a rats ass about what the media said.

[Revolting cat!]

A head of the government should be dispensable. A head of state should be a ceremonial figure. The Italians (and many others) have got it right, we haven’t!

[Pollster1]

At an awards dinner in January 2007, Berlusconi said to a former showgirl and men's magazine model, Mara Carfagna: "I'd go anywhere with you, even to a desert island. If I weren't already married, I would marry you straight away." His wife, Veronica Lario, reacted by writing a letter published on the front page of La Repubblica newspaper calling for a public apology. She duly received one. Mr Berlusconi later made Ms Carfagna his equal opportunities minister.

The man has a good eye (but it was still tacky, since he's married).

[aquila48]

Here’s a few more....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8286270/Silvio-Berlusconis-women.html

[Segovia]

Perhaps we could just trade Italy for Berlusconi-—he’s a hell of a lot more entertaining than O’dumbass, and the female accompaniment would be a definite improvement on the Wookie.