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.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

The law must have the last word.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.