Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.