There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

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.

Intelligence is power

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I will play in the process.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.

Will you say England belongs to other nationals because they are there in largenumbers?

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

There’s always someone who knows something.