France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
What do you take me for, an idiot?
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.
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!