Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

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

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.