The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.

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

In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.

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

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.