Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

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

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.

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.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

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

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!