I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

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.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Have you ever tried?" "No." Then don't tell me I can't.

I just want to do something big if I do anything at all.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

When you love what you do, you can work all the time.

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