It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.