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

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

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.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

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.

From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person.