Ну вы меня поняли:
"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

С часами с кукушкой, правда, тоже как-то не очень ловко вышло :)

© Orson Welles

Хотя на самом деле это, видимо переработанная цитата Сантаяны (хотя некоторые утверждают что Муссолини):

After the meeting I joined Santayana for cocktails at his hotel and he added his own comment about the greatness of Italy, Santayana said that Italy was always one of the most restless countries in Europe: "it had more than its share of revolutions, its politicians were among the most corrupt in Europe; it was ruled by the mafia in several elections." Yet he added Italy produced some of the world's greatest scholars, writers, artists like Dante, Galileo, and Michelangelo. Then he added: "Now you take Switzerland. It has a most peaceful history,' no mafia and what has it produced? The cuckoo clock Janus, that's a joke."