Quotes from Beppe Grillo

Israel is frightening. Its behaviour is irresponsible.

Left and right in Italy, they've always pretended to fight.

In Italy, we have some of the best minds in the world, and we have let them all go abroad.

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.

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.

I want the Eurobond, a 20 per cent devalued euro for southern European countries, protecting our products against those arriving from abroad, and a revision of the 3 per cent deficit budgetary rule.

We are moderate, beautiful people, and we are the only thing left standing between Italy and the real extremists.

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

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

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

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.

The art of the compromise, which was the art of politics, is no longer valid. Compromise needs to be between citizens, not between Republicans and Democrats.

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.

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

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.