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

On immigration, the League and Five Star's positions start from notable distances.

I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

We need to review treaties to make them reflect our national interest.

The national interest is the priority. If not, what's the point in continuing to give money to the E.U.?

Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet.

Anti-Semites are imbeciles and delinquents.

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

With Islam, there's the Sharia. There's the Islamic law which prevails, and as long as it doesn't distinguish between God and the state, it's a problem.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

We do not accept lessons on rights or humanity from Mr. Macron.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

I want to change Italy and get the economy back on track.

I don't have to justify myself every time I go to Israel.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

If Macron thinks there is no immigration crisis in Italy, he should open his doors to the 9,000 migrants France agreed to welcome from Italy in accordance with signed European agreements.

Italian ports are no longer at the disposal of traffickers.

We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.

I'm a federalist.

The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does.

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

An Italy that collects lower taxes, that has well-defined times for the court proceedings, and that has less bureaucracy is good news that reassures the markets.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.

Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself.

Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.

If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.