I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Her smile is the simplest miracle that she can create anytime.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.