They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

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

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible