Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

There is not love where there is no will.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.