Source on Roberto Calderoli

“Just as Borghezio has already been expelled from the parliamentary group he was a member of in Strasbourg, following the insults made against Kyenge, we expect the group of League senators to do the same towards Calderoli. It won't be much of a loss. And it will serve to re-establish in Italy too that European practice whereby racists are kept on the margins of institutions, also because the liberal and moderate right is the first to undertake not to give them space. (Gad Lerner)”

“I forgot everything: the annoyances, the mediocrities, the mistakes of my life; I even forgot "the Iliad" by Baricco, and the vast and incomprehensible obtuseness of the faces of Roberto Calderoli and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. (Pietro Citati)”

“Minister Calderoli declares that the regionalization of education would be appropriate, a cultural bomb for the unity of the country, which will stop the social lift and worsen inequalities. (Ubaldo Pagano)”

“The verbal attack on Minister Cécile Kyenge, disguised as usual as a joke, was a premeditated act of racist violence. Calderoli knew well what he was doing. With his ignoble turn of phrase at the Treviglio rally he was looking for provocation, in a moment of maximum difficulty of the Northern League afflicted by a real hemorrhage of militants; and personal to him, given that from within they accused him of excessive moderation. (Gad Lerner)”

“The squalor of the father of the porcellum's statements about the Minister for Integration Cecile Kyenge is so evident as to advise against any type of comment, it will be said, to avoid amplification. But as absurd as it may seem, Calderoli's statements are a political act, the work of an experienced parliamentarian and exponent of a party that has played an important role in the worst atrocities of the last twenty years. It is therefore out of pure calculation that the representatives of the League - normally lumped together with the fascists of Forza Nuova - do not miss an opportunity to offend, always with racial arguments, Minister Kyenge. (Roberto Saviano)”

“For us it is important that there is a man like Roberto Calderoli, a guarantee in that Ministry to finally carry forward that path of autonomy that the citizens of Veneto and Lombardy had precisely voted for in a referendum. (Rebecca Frassini)”

“When the voice of the clock radio is that of Minister Calderoli, someone who not even Nostradamus could imagine in his most lugubrious quatrains. [...] It is then that, immediately, one would like to disconnect one's existence from that of others. Turning away and going back to sleep, as if those voices had just been a bad and mediocre dream. (Michele Serra)”