I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

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

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

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.