When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

France has no friends, only interests.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?