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Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.
We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!
One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.
When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.
France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.
If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.
Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.
The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less
I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.
Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.
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.
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.
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)
We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.
Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy
Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.
I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.
In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."
We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.
Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!
It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.
The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.
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.
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.
Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.