France will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend. Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.