I am the president of the youth of France.

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.

Writing helps maintain my sanity or else I would lose my mind.

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

The biggest threat to the regime is information.

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

In no other game but love can you make all the right moves and still lose.

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

When intention is supported by effort, success follows.

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.