France has no friends, only interests.

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

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

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.