It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

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

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

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

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