If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.