It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

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.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

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