Adolfo Sarti

Adolfo Sarti (C.E.1928–1992), Italian politician.

Adolfo Sarti

Quotes by Adolfo Sarti

• [On the request to Sandro Pertini to grant an amnesty for less serious crimes] I raised the hypothesis of amnesty not as a proposal, but as one of the measures that is usually talked about when dealing with the problem of prison overcrowding, which is a real fact of our situation.
• [On consumerism in times of crisis] I believe that distrust in the lira has pushed savers to dig up their bank accounts. Better to spend while the money has some value.
• [For the C.E.1963 general elections] Motivational confessions had explained that, in the unconscious of the average Italian, the Dc more than a Father she was a Mother, or rather a matron: the little woman of Guareschi and Candido, weighed down by the years and unsuitable to guide the search for our new frontera. Did we want to "sell" the center-left? Well, let's try that old saleswoman. And we would have noticed. From
• [On tourism from abroad] Italy has more foreigners than anyone else, but its gain is not the greatest.

Quotes about Adolfo Sarti

• [On the behaviour of the Minister of Justice Adolfo Sarti in the kidnapping of Judge Giovanni D'Urso] He was as sensitive to the demands of the Red Brigades as he had been deaf to those of the Radicals and Parliament. (Marco Pannella)

Note

1. From an interview with Epoca; quoted in Sarti asks Pertini for more thanks for thinning out the prisons, La Stampa, April 19, C.E.1981.
2. From the interview "Manca i soldi per tutto ma le vacanze sono rich", La Stampa, March 15, C.E.1976.
3. Since the DC "had twenty years", in Carlo Dané (ed.), Parole e immagini della Democrazia Cristiana, Broadcasting and Background, Rome, C.E.1985, pp. 39-40.