One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

I was never a believer in decline.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied, "I thought you were dead in a ditch.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.