Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in - I can't invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament - that's about one crook in twelve. It's worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!

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Now that the constitutional reform is getting close, the PD has saved Silvio in exchange for benevolence, both on his part and the part of his powerful media empire.

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world

Maybe people are scared that 5-Star is getting close to government?

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world

You cannot allow ... Battaglia, a consultant to multinationals, to go on television and casually say no one died at Chernobyl. I'll kick you in the backside and throw you off television, I'll report you and send you to jail.

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world

Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.

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artificial intelligence work world

Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable... but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you're trying to be immune to.

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you vaccines risk trying

We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You have to have a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way of thinking. It is a way of thinking. Not a restoration. Parties out. Citizens instead of parties.

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you work ideas thinking

We're a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don't have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries... No one gives us orders.

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us who up people

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

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right meaningless concepts left

This world - the Western world - has failed. We must have a plan B. We're the plan B.

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failed plan must world

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

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both obvious advertising politics

The immigration flows have to be controlled. We have to know who comes into Italy. The problem shouldn't be left to oversized, dysfunctional, nongovernmental groups.

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know left immigration problem

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

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look internet language world

When China was only Communist, everyone received the Dalai Lama, but now that China is hyper-capitalist, he gets blacked out.

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everyone only now china

We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.

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inside bank politics bankers

If everyone in China is a socialist, from whom do they steal?

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steal everyone socialist china

For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it's a different mentality.

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laws mentality barriers different

My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it.

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finance universal different dream

The old division of Left versus Right is dead. In the Internet age, it's about citizens versus parliamentary relics.

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dead old internet age

My comedy routines have always been about the health of the nation.

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nation always comedy health

I've always been political.

Beppe Grillo

been always political