We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.