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

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 became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

If life gives you the wobbles make jelly.

He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.

I used to drink from my little sister’s bottle when she was a baby.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.