When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.