France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less

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

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

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

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."