Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

I don't give any gifts to the rich.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.

You won't hear from me again.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

You are the eternal France, I love you.

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.