(ANSA) - San Francisco, September 22 - Italy's premier has
no masters, and this means Italy is changing, Premier Matteo
Renzi said Monday.
"If the premier is free of godfathers and masters it's a
sign Italy is tired of certain rituals and a certain way of
doing politics," Renzi told 150 Italian-American entrepreneurs
in Silicon Valley.
"We might fail, but as Silicon Valley teaches us, failure
is how we learn to do better," the premier said.
"This an extraordinary chance to stop crying over spilled
milk," Renzi went on.
"I am aware that some things need to be changed violently,
but if you don't pit the strength of your ideas and your brain
you don't go anywhere," the premier said.
"Italy is a great country with some incredible weak spots,"
he added.
"Our part is to keep going...at some point, you come to the
place where you have to make somebody angry in order to please
everybody," said the premier on the first leg of a US tour that
will take him to the UN climate change conference on Tuesday.
'I have no masters' says Renzi
'The time has come to make some people angry' says premier