“The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.”

So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personne.

Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.

I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing.

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.