Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

Music is actually where I see heaven.

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

For Christmas the just came out with a battery-operated battery. But the batteries aren't included.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.