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."

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

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

All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

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.

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

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. "Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." No axiom in politics is more certain than this.