“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!

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.

I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.