I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.

The law must have the last word.

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.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.

The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

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