Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

You are the eternal France, I love you.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.