Quotes from Matteo Salvini

Let's take back our currency; then we can discuss at what conditions we can stay in the E.U.

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

I'm a federalist.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

We need to defend the fruits of our land.

The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.

I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.

Changing Europe is a big goal. But I think it is at our fingertips.

We want to give a voice to all the good people of the South.

We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.

Europe advises, sometimes threatens, and tells us, 'You should make a budget of 10 billion euros in taxes.' Are they joking? The last thing that Italy needs is taxes.

I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?

I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.

I am and I will remain a populist, because those who listen to the people are doing their job, whereas the radical chic who disgust workers are no longer wanted by the people.

The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?

The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.

The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws and regulations and monitor who enters and who leaves this country.

The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying. There are more and more clashes, more and more demands. And I doubt the compatibility of Italian law with Muslim law, because it's not just a religion but a law.

We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is destined to end: not because I want it but because the facts, common sense, and the real economy dictate it.

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.