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

I don't give any gifts to the rich.

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

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."

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.