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.

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.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I never heard so much content in so short a period.

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.