I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

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

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

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