“When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.”

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Victory starts in our minds. Success, breakthroughs, new levels depend on our thinking.

As a young female I think it’s important that young people know there’s nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.