What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

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.

From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person.

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."

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 cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.

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.