Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.

Masume works hard and he's very thoughtful. He likes hardships, so he's very useful.

Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.