Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.