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

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.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

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

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

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

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