Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

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

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

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

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

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.

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.