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."

I love life too much to be bitter.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

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

You are the eternal France, I love you.

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

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