How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.