No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

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

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

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

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?