Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it's the opposite.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.