Adolfo Sarti

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

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.