There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

Speak less but act more.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.