It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

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.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

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

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.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!