If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

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.

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

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.

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