During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

When you give yourself fully with your mind and body to a mission, you can get more than 100% returns.

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Nature is malleable and nature learns.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

God has no beginning and no end.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.