The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

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

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

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 always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.