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.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

I don't give any gifts to the rich.

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

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.