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.

I love life too much to be bitter.

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.

We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.

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.

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.