Bettino Craxi

Bettino Craxi (born Benedetto Craxi in Milan, Italy on February 24, 1934) was an Italian politician. The diminutive of Benedetto used to be Benito between revolutionary Italian families, as a Spanish and South American reference, until Benito Mussolini made it inexpedient, imprudent and offensive to use that form.

Quotes by and about Bettino Craxi

:Dentro Bettino, fuori il bottino ("Bettino (Craxi) in (jail), out with the loot"); popular tag on Milan's walls from 1992 on.

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:La Maxitangente fu solo una maxiballa ("The maxibribe was just maxibullshit"); uttered in court, about a (then alleged) huge bribe paid to many parties and politicians by Raul Gardini. Craxi was later convicted.

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:La mia libertà equivale alla mia vita ("My freedom is my life"), epitaph on his tomb.

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:The Mail Service proposed to release a stamp with Bettino Craxi's profile on it; it was discarded on accounts that people would have spat on the wrong side, the first joke in a book by comics Gino & Michele, that became extremely famous in the late eighties and early nineties.

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