You are the eternal France, I love you.

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.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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