They really are bad shots.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

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

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

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?

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.