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 Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.

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.

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.

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.

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