How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

What do you take me for, an idiot?

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

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

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.