I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

It's a wild ride, this parenthood thing. Hardest thing I've done in my life and by far the best.

Tis of the tears which stars weep sweet with joy.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

When I become mayor, we all become mayor.