Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

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.

A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.

For being crazy Like me is not a decease, because I think this is the onLy way i to Hide my Emotion and to Prove that I'm a Strong Person

Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.