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

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

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.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

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

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

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."