Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

You won't hear from me again.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

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

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.