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

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

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

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

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

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

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.